This volume focuses on the biomechanical modeling of biological tissues in the context of Computer Assisted Surgery (CAS). More specifically, deformable soft ti

Computer assisted surgery systems intraoperatively support the surgeon by providing information on the location of hidden risk and target structures during surg

Computer assisted surgery systems intraoperatively support the surgeon by providing information on the location of hidden risk and target structures during surg

One of the greatest challenges for mechanists is to extend the success of computational mechanics to fields outside traditional engineering, in particular to bi

An overview of biomechanical modeling of human soft tissue using nonlinear theoretical mechanics and incremental finite element methods, useful for computer sim