Material Parameter Identification and Inverse Problems in Soft Tissue Biomechanics

1. Structural Building Blocks of Soft Tissues: Tendons and Heart Valves
Himadri S. Gupta, Hazel R. C. Screen

2. Hyperelasticity of Soft Tissues and Related Inverse Problems
Stéphane Avril

3. How Can We Measure the Mechanical Properties of Soft Tissues?
Sam Evans

4. Damage in Vascular Tissues and Its Modeling
T. Christian Gasser

5. Mechanical Behaviour of Skin: The Struggle for the Right Testing Method
Cees Oomens

6. Soft Tissue Finite Element Modeling and Calibration of the Material Properties in the Context of Computer-Assisted Medical Interventions
Yohan Payan

Keywords: Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Engineering Design, Regenerative Medicine/Tissue Engineering, Simulation and Modeling, Biomaterials