Abstract
Among the many advantages brought by Additive Manufacturing technologies in the clinical context, the possibility of producing training phantoms is of prominent importance. Within such a context, soft tissues, as those of abdominal and pelvic organs, pose major challenges in the reproduction of their biomechanics. The starting point for the choice of the most suitable material is a comprehensive understanding of the target tissue biomechanics. This can be done thanks to mechanical characterization testing, which is not trivial to perform on biological tissues for a number of reasons. The present study presents a literature review of the approaches for the mechanical characterization of main abdominal and pelvic organs, focusing on the methodology applied for the testing as well as on the protocol for samples provision, storage, and preparation for the specific mechanical test.
Unfortunately time flies and there are so many on-going events and activities that it is, in general, difficult to have a clear recollection of past events. However, I clearly remember the first time I had a conversation with Gerhard.
It was 1999, we were in Bolder for 5 th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, and we happened to be in the same Mini-Symposium on Cardiovascular Computational Mechanics. It was the start of a long friendship and many visits of me in Graz and of Gerhard in Pavia.
I always enjoyed spending time with Gerhard talking about his great vision and efforts in bringing together continuum mechanics, biomechanics, experimental evidences, computational aspects, etc. etc. and I appreciate his vision in building up a new and active group of researchers in Graz able to really boost some of the mentioned activities. I think that all this work has been extremely inspiring for many of us. So, dear Gerhard, thanks, many happy new celebrations (together), and let us enjoy (again together) a toast with a good glass of wine.
Ferdinando
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Marconi, S., Negrello, E., Mauri, V., Alaimo, G., Auricchio, F. (2022). Towards Surgical Training Phantoms Obtained by Additive Manufacturing: Mechanical Characterization of Abdominal and Pelvic Organs. A Literature Review. In: Sommer, G., Li, K., Haspinger, D.C., Ogden, R.W. (eds) Solid (Bio)mechanics: Challenges of the Next Decade. Studies in Mechanobiology, Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials, vol 24. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92339-6_12
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