A contemporary look at biomechanical models of myocardium

R Avazmohammadi, JS Soares, DS Li… - Annual review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Understanding and predicting the mechanical behavior of myocardium under healthy and
pathophysiological conditions are vital to developing novel cardiac therapies and promoting …

A simple and efficient adaptive time stepping technique for l ow‐order operator splitting schemes applied to cardiac electrophysiology

D Ogiermann, LE Perotti… - International Journal for …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We present a simple, yet efficient adaptive time stepping scheme for cardiac
electrophysiology (EP) simulations based on standard operator splitting techniques. The …

Unique identification of stiffness parameters in hyperelastic models for anisotropic, deformable, thin materials based on a single experiment-a feasibility study based …

L Makhool, D Balzani - Experimental Mechanics, 2024 - Springer
Background Characterizing material properties of thin sheets for design or manufacturing
purposes is an essential concern in many engineering applications. This task is particularly …

[HTML][HTML] An explicit local space-time adaptive framework for monodomain models in cardiac electrophysiology

D Ogiermann, D Balzani, LE Perotti - Computer Methods in Applied …, 2024 - Elsevier
We present a new explicit local space–time adaptive framework to decrease the time
required for monodomain simulations for cardiac electrophysiology. Based on the localized …

Direct and inverse identification of constitutive parameters from the structure of soft tissues. Part 1: micro-and nanostructure of collagen fibers

M Marino, M von Hoegen, J Schröder… - … and modeling in …, 2018 - Springer
Soft tissues are characterized by a nonlinear mechanical response, highly affected by the
multiscale structure of collagen fibers. The effectiveness and the calibration of constitutive …

Microstructurally Anchored Cardiac Kinematics by Combining In Vivo DENSE MRI and cDTI

LE Perotti, P Magrath, IA Verzhbinsky, E Aliotta… - Functional Imaging and …, 2017 - Springer
Metrics of regional myocardial function can detect the onset of cardiovascular disease,
evaluate the response to therapy, and provide mechanistic insight into cardiac dysfunction …

A new method for the in vivo identification of degenerated material property ranges of the human eye: feasibility analysis based on synthetic data

S Muench, M Roellig, D Balzani - Biomechanics and Modeling in …, 2022 - Springer
This paper proposes a new method for in vivo and almost real-time identification of
biomechanical properties of the human cornea based on non-contact tonometer data …

Efficient identification of material parameters for an orthotropic hyperelastic nonlinear material model for textile membranes

M Motevalli, D Balzani - Construction and Building Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
A recently proposed orthotropic nonlinear material model for general classes of woven
fabrics is adapted to glass-PTFE and PES-PVC fabrics. The nonlinear model contains three …

Real-time 3T MRI-guided cardiovascular catheterization in a porcine model using a glass-fiber epoxy-based guidewire

X Li, LE Perotti, JA Martinez, SM Duarte-Vogel… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Purpose Real-time magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a promising alternative to X-ray
fluoroscopy for guiding cardiovascular catheterization procedures. Major challenges …

Effective hyperelastic material parameters from microstructures constructed using the planar Boolean model

M Brändel, D Brands, S Maike, O Rheinbach… - Computational …, 2022 - Springer
We construct two-dimensional, two-phase random heterogeneous microstructures by
stochastic simulation using the planar Boolean model, which is a random collection of …