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Muscle Tissue Simulants

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Soft Tissue Simulants

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Muscles are flexible tissues with contractile properties and are viscoelastic, anisotropic, and nonlinear in nature.

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Chanda, A., Singh, G. (2024). Muscle Tissue Simulants. In: Soft Tissue Simulants. Biomedical Materials for Multi-functional Applications. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-3060-5_4

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