Introduction

Yohan Payan (1)

1 TIMC-IMAG-GMCAO - Gestes Medico-chirurgicaux Assistés par Ordinateur

This volume focuses on the biomechanical modeling of biological tissues in the context of Computer Assisted Surgery (CAS). More specifically, deformable soft tissues are addressed since they are the subject of the most recent developments in this field. The pioneering work on this CAS topic dates from the 1980's, with applications in orthopaedics and biomechanical models of bones. More recently, however, biomechanical models of soft tissues have been proposed since most of the human body is made of soft organs that can be deformed by the surgical gesture. Such models are much more complicated to handle since the tissues can be subject to large deformations as well as complex stress/strain relationships.

Mots clés: biomechanics; computer aided surgery; finite element modeling; open-source platform; tissue characterization; biomedical engineering

Domaines: Biomécanique [physics.med-ph]; Biomécanique [physics.med-ph]; Modélisation et simulation; Ingénierie biomédicale

Yohan Payan. Introduction. Yohan Payan. Soft Tissue Biomechanical Modeling for Computer Assisted Surgery, Springer-Verlag, pp.1-3, 2012, 978-3-642-29013-8. ⟨10.1007/8415_2012_130⟩. ⟨hal-00706786⟩