Conference Agenda

HAEMODYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF DIFFERENT SURGICAL STRATEGIES OF A TYPE-B AORTIC DISSECTION VIA VIRTUAL GRAFTING

L. Girardin^1,2, C. Stokes^1,2, M. S. Thet³, A. Y. Oo³, S. Balabani^1,2, V. Diaz^1,2

¹University College London, United Kingdom; ²Wellcome/ESPRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences (WEISS); ³St Bartholomew's Hospital

FSI COMPUTATIONAL MODEL OF A PATIENT SPECIFIC AAA VALIDATED BY LED ILLUMINATED PIV

F. Bardi^1,2,3, M. N. Antonuccio^1,2, E. Gasparotti¹, E. Vignali¹, M. Aguirre², S. Avril², S. Celi¹

¹BioCardioLab, Fondazione Toscana “G. Monasterio”, Italy; ²Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France; ³PrediSurge, France

MODELLING AORTIC FLOWS: IMPACT OF WALL DISPLACEMENTS ON LARGE-SCALE HEMODYNAMIC COHERENCE IN ASCENDING AORTA

K. Calò¹, K. Capellini², G. De Nisco¹, V. Mazzi¹, E. Gasparotti², D. Gallo¹, S. Celi², U. Morbiducci¹

¹PolitoBIOMed Lab, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy; ²BioCardioLab, Bioengineering Unit – Heart Hospital, Fondazione Toscana “G. Monasterio”, Massa, Italy

IN SILICO HEMODYNAMICAL SIMULATIONS SHOW SECONDARY BENEFITS OF ANTIHYPERTENSIVE DRUGS

J. Jagos¹, J. Kohut¹, T. Novotny², T. Krivka², P. Hajek¹, M. Formanek¹, J. Bursa¹

¹Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic; ²St. Anne’s University Hospital in Brno, Czech Republic

A COMBINED CFD AND MESH MOPHING TECHNIQUE TO INVESTIGATE THORACIC AORTA HEMODYNAMICS

F. Dell'Agnello^1,2, M. A. Scarpolini^1,3, K. Capellini¹, E. Vignali¹, E. Gasparotti¹, F. Cademartiri⁴, S. Celi¹

¹BioCardioLab, Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio, Italy; ²Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Italy; ³Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy; ⁴Clinical Imaging Department, Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio, Italy

THROMBUS MECHANICS: FROM MICROSTRUCTURE TO IMAGING AND DEVICE DESIGN

F. Gijsen^1,2

¹Erasmus Medical Center, Netherlands, The; ²Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, The

INVESTIGATING RUPTURE CHARACTERISTICS OF TISSUE-ENGINEERED ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE CAPS

H. Crielaard¹, T. B. Wissing^1,2, S. Guvenir Torun¹, P. de Miguel^1,3, G. J. Kremers¹, F. J. H. Gijsen^1,3, A. C. Akyildiz^1,3, K. van der Heiden^1,2

¹Erasmus MC, The Netherlands; ²Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands; ³Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

INFLUENCE OF WALL SHEAR AND MECHANICAL STRESS ON ATHEROSCLEROTIC ARTERY DISEASE IN HUMAN CORONARIES

A. Tziotziou¹, E. Hartman¹, S.-A. Korteland¹, A. F. van der Steen¹, J. Daemen², J. Wentzel¹, A. C. Akyildiz^1,3

¹Department of Biomedical Engineering, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; ²Department of Cardiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; ³Department of Biomechanical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands

ELUCIDATING THE LONGITUDINAL IMPACT OF SOLID MECHANICS ON ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE IN REAL CORONARY ARTERIES

J. L. Warren, C. Meyer, H. Hayenga

The University of Texas at Dallas, United States of America

3D MODELING OF CAROTID ARTERY AND PLAQUE PROGRESSION USING COUPLED AGENT BASED AND FINITE ELEMENT METHODS

S. Tomasevic^1,2, T. Djukic^2,3, B. Arsic^2,4, M. Anic^1,2, A. Blagojevic^1,2, B. Gakovic⁵, I. Koncar⁵, N. Filipovic^1,2

¹Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, Serbia; ²Bioengineering Research and Development Center (BioIRC), Serbia; ³Institute of Information Technologies, Kragujevac, Serbia; ⁴Faculty of Science, University of Kragujevac, Serbia; ⁵Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Serbia

MULTISCALE MODELING OF VASCULAR ADAPTATION PROCESSES: ACHIEVEMENTS AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES

C. Chiastra

Politecnico di Torino, Italy

ROLE OF ANGIOTENSIN 1B RECEPTORS IN INDUCING REGIONAL DISPARITIES IN HYPERTENSIVE AORTIC REMODELING

C. Cavinato^1,2, A. W. Caulk¹, B. Spronck^1,3, S.-I. Murtada¹, J. D. Humphrey^1,4

¹Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA; ²LMGC, University of Montpellier, CNRS, Montpellier, France; ³Department of Biomedical Engineering, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands; ⁴Vascular Biology and Therapeutics Program, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

LOAD-INDUCED MICROSTRUCTURAL CHANGES OF COLLAGEN AND ELASTIN FIBERS IN THE HUMAN AORTIC WALL ARE LAYER-SPECIFIC

A. Pukaluk¹, H. Wolinski^2,3, C. Viertler⁴, P. Regitnig⁴, G. A. Holzapfel^1,5, G. Sommer¹

¹Institute of Biomechanics, Graz University of Technology, Austria; ²Institute of Molecular Biosciences, University of Graz, Austria; ³Field of Excellence BioHealth – University of Graz, Austria; ⁴Diagnostic and Research Institute of Pathology, Medical University of Graz, Austria; ⁵Department of Structural Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway

MULTISCALE COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF NOTCH SIGNALING IN MECHANO-REGULATED GROWTH AND REMODELING

J. van Asten¹, T. Ristori¹, F. Baaijens¹, C. Sahlgren^1,2, J. Humphrey³, S. Loerakker¹

¹Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands; ²Åbo Akademi, Finland; ³Yale University, Unites States

IN SILICO MODELLING OF THE MULTISCALE AND CHEMO-MECHANO-BIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS BEHIND VASCULAR TONE ADAPTATION

M. Marino¹, B. Sauty^1,2

¹University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy; ²Mines Saint Etienne, France

THE EFFECT OF PRESTRESS IN TAVI PROCEDURE FINITE ELEMENTS SIMULATIONS ON PATIENT SPECIFIC GEOMETRIES

V. Lissoni, M. Farina, G. Mora, J. F. Rodriguez Matas, G. Luraghi

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

IMPACT OF PATIENT MORPHOLOGY ON VALVE THROMBOSIS – COMBINING PATIENT DATA AND COMPUTATIONAL MODELING

S. E. Jahren¹, C. Demirel², K.-M. Bornemann¹, P. Corso¹, S. Stortecky², D. Obrist¹

¹ARTORG Center, University of Bern, Switzerland; ²Department of Cardiology, Inselspital, University of Bern, Switzerland

BIOMECHANICAL ANALYSIS OF AORTIC ROOTS BASED ON ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC IMAGES: DIFFERENCES BETWEEN TRICUSPID AND BICUSPID AORTIC VALVE PATIENTS

P. Mortensen¹, C. Rosnel¹, A. Pouch², A. Aggarwal¹

¹University of Glasgow, United Kingdom; ²University of Pennsylvania, United States of America

COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING APPROACHES TO ASSESS THE IN VITRO PERFORMANCE OF A TAVR DEVICE

S. Boxwell^1,2, D. Armfield², P. Cardiff², S. Cook³, D. Loughnane³, P. Kelly³, L. McNamara¹

¹Mechanobiology and Medical Device Research Group, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland; ²School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; ³Structural Heart Department, Boston Scientific Corporation, Galway, Ireland

COMPUTATIONAL MITRAL VALVE MODELING THROUGH A COMPREHENSIVE MRI-BASED APPROACH

D. Tondi¹, F. Sturla^2,1, M. Marin-Cuartas³, R. Spampinato³, M.-T. Dieterlen³, A. Redaelli¹, M. A. Borger³, E. Votta^1,2

¹Politecnico di Milano, Italy; ²IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, San Donato Milanese, Italy; ³Leipzig Heart Center, Leipzig, Germany

COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF VENTRICULAR EXPANDER TO TREAT DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION

J. Weissmann¹, I. Benoliel¹, C. H. Yap², G. Marom¹

¹Tel Aviv University, Israel; ²Imperial College London, United Kingdom

PATIENT-SPECIFIC COMBINED FEA-FSI METHODOLOGY TO MODEL THE TEVAR PROCEDURE

A. Ramella¹, F. Migliavacca¹, J. F. Rodriguez Matas¹, T. J. Mandigers², D. Bissacco², M. Domanin^2,3, S. Trimarchi^2,3, G. Luraghi¹

¹Politecnico di Milano, Italy; ²Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, italy; ³Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

MODELING IN-VITRO MATURATION OF TISSUE-ENGINEERED BIOHYBRID HEART VALVE IMPLANTS

M. Sesa¹, H. Holthusen¹, C. Böhm², S. Jockenhövel², S. Reese¹

¹Institute of Applied Mechanics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany; ²Biohybrid & Medical Textile (BioTex), Institute of Applied Medical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

A MULTISCALE MODEL OF IN-STENT RESTENOSIS IN CORONARY ARTERIES INTEGRATING DRUG KINETICS WITH CELL DYNAMICS

A. Corti¹, A. McQueen², F. Migliavacca¹, C. Chiastra³, S. McGinty²

¹LaBS, Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy; ²Division of Biomedical Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK; ³PoliToBIOMed Lab, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy

IN SILICO MODELLING OF ENDOVASCULAR DRUG DELIVERY FROM DRUG-COATED BALLOONS

A. Fensterseifer Schmidt¹, K. Oldroyd², A. Aggarwal³, S. McGinty^1,3

¹Division of Biomedical Engineering, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom; ²Cardiovascular & Metabolic Health, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom; ³Glasgow Computational Engineering Centre, University of Glasgow

FROM MECHANOBIOLOGY OF AORTIC SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS TO IMPROVED PROGNOSIS OF THORACIC AORTIC ANEURYSMS

S. Avril

Mines Saint-Etienne, France

THE IMPACT OF 4D-FLOW MRI-DERIVED INLET CONDITIONS IN FLOW SIMULATIONS OF ANEURYSMAL TYPE-B AORTIC DISSECTION

C. Stokes^1,2, D. Ahmed³, N. Lind⁴, F. Haupt⁴, D. Becker⁵, V. Muthurangu⁶, H. von Tengg-Kobligk⁴, G. Papadakis³, S. Balabani^1,2, V. Diaz-Zuccarini^1,2

¹Department of Mechanical Engineering, University College London, UK; ²Wellcome-EPSRC Centre for Interventional Surgical Sciences, London, UK; ³Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College London, UK; ⁴Department of Diagnostic, Interventional and Pediatric Radiology, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland; ⁵Centre for Translational Cardiovascular Imaging, University College London; ⁶Clinic of Vascular Surgery, Inselspital, University of Bern, Switzerland

MERGING 4D ULTRASOUND AND MODIFIED VIRTUAL FIELDS METHOD TO REGIONALLY CHARACTERIZE ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSMS

M. Thirugnanasambandam^1,2, E. J Maas^1,2, A. H M Nievergeld^1,2, M. R H M van Sambeek^1,2, S. Avril³, R. G P Lopata¹

¹Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands; ²Catharina Hospital Eindhoven, the Netherlands; ³Ecole des MINES St. Etienne, France

ANALYZING ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM VESSEL, LUMEN AND THROMBUS GROWTH USING 3D+T ULTRASOUND

A. Nievergeld^1,2, E. Maas^1,2, J. Fonken^1,2, M. van Sambeek², R. Lopata¹

¹Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, The; ²Catharina Hospital Eindhoven, Netherlands

RISK ASSESSMENT OF ASCENDING AORTIC ANEURYSMS USING PROBABILISTIC MATERIAL PARAMETERS AND IN VIVO THICKNESS

S. Dreesen, K. Vander Linden, N. Famaey

KU Leuven, Belgium

MECHANICS UNDERLIES IMPAIRED ANGIOGENESIS AND ENDOTHELIAL MOSAICISM IN CEREBRAL CAVERNOUS MALFORMATIONS

A. Shapeti¹, J. Barrasa Fano¹, J. de Jong¹, A. Rahman Abdel Fattah¹, E. Planus², E. Faurobert², H. Van Oosterwyck^1,3

¹Biomechanics Section, KU Leuven, Belgium; ²Institute for Advanced Biosciences, France; ³Prometheus, Division of Skeletal Tissue Engineering, KU Leuven

OSTEOARTHRITIS PATIENTS CLASSIFICATION BASED ON SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES AND REGULATORY NETWORK MODELS

M. Segarra-Queralt¹, M. Galofre¹, L. Tio², J. Monfort², J. C. Monllao², G. Piella¹, J. Noailly¹

¹BCN MedTech, Barcelona, Spain; ²IMIM, Barcelona, Spain

A MULTISCALE APPROACH TO STUDY CHONDROCYTE MECHANOBIOLOGY USING A CARTILAGE ON CHIP SETUP

S. Mukherjee¹, L. Spoelstra³, T. Le³, C. A. Paggi³, R. Lesage¹, J. B. Fano¹, H. Van Oosterwyck¹, M. Karperien³, L. Geris^1,2

¹KU Leuven, Belgium; ²University of Liege, Belgium; ³University of Twente, the Netherlands

A CORRELATIVE MULTIMODAL IMAGING APPROACH FOR SPATIAL TRANSCRIPTOMICS MECHANOREGULATION ANALYSIS

F. Correia Marques¹, A. Singh¹, N. Mathavan¹, D. Günther¹, E. Wehrle^1,2, R. Müller¹

¹Institute for Biomechanics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; ²AO Research Institute Davos, Davos Platz, Switzerland

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS AND CONSTITUTIVE MODELLING OF THE LAYER-DEPENDENT BEHAVIOUR OF THE HUMAN OESOPHAGUS

C. Durcan^1,2, M. Hossain¹, G. Chagnon², D. Perić¹, É. Girard^2,3

¹Zienkiewicz Centre for Computational Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Swansea University, Swansea, UK; ²Laboratoire TIMC, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France; ³Laboratoire d’Anatomie des Alpes Françaises, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France

MECHANICAL CHARACTERISATION OF FAT SUBSTITUTES FOR SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG DELIVERY EXPERIMENTAL MODEL

A. S. K. Kho^1,2, S. Béguin³, E. O'Cearbhaill^1,2, A. Ní Annaidh^1,2

¹UCD Centre for Biomedical Engineering, University College Dublin, Belfield Dublin 4, Ireland; ²I-Form Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering, University College Dublin, Belfield Dublin 4, Ireland; ³Becton Dickinson, Pottery Rd, Woodpark, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Ireland

FREEZE DRIED WHARTON’S JELLY MECHANICAL RESPONSE CHANGE WITH HYDRATION

A. Baldit¹, M. Vassaux², L. Scomazzon³, C. Laurent¹, C. Mauprivez³, H. Kerdjoudj³

¹LEM3-UMR-7239, CNRS, University of Lorraine, France; ²IPR UMR 6251, CNRS, Université de Rennes, France; ³BIOS, Univ. de Reims Champagne Ardenne,EA 4691 Reims, France.

FROM ANIMAL MODEL TO HUMAN STUDY: A MECHANICAL AND STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF THE STOMACH

C. S. Holzer¹, A. Pukaluk¹, C. Viertler², P. Regitnig², A. W. Caulk³, M. Eschbach³, G. A. Holzapfel^1,4

¹Graz University of Technology, Austria; ²Diagnostic and Research Institute of Pathology, Medical University of Graz, Austria; ³Surgical Innovations, Medtronic, North Haven, CT, USA; ⁴Department of Structural Engineering, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway

A CLOT COMPOSITION DEPENDANT HYPERELASTIC MODEL IN THE SIMULATION OF DIRECT ASPIRATION THROMBECTOMY

K. Bein Snee¹, R. McCarthy², P. McHugh¹, B. Fereidoonnezhad³, P. McGarry¹

¹University of Galway, Ireland; ²Cerenovus, Ireland; ³Biomechanical Engineering Department, TU Delft, the Netherlands

EVALUATION OF BIOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SOFT TISSUES MIMICKING PHANTOMS BY IMPACT ANALYSES

A. Bouffandeau¹, A.-S. Poudrel¹, C. Brossier¹, G. Rosi², V.-H. Nguyen², G. Haïat¹

¹CNRS, MSME UMR CNRS 8208, France; ²Université Paris-Est Créteil, France

MYOCARDIAL TRABECULAE IN ZEBRAFISH EMBRYOS IMPROVE TISSUE DEFORMABILITY AND REDUCE STRESSES

A. G. Cairelli¹, A. Gendernalik², J. Vermot^1,3, J. Lee⁴, D. Bark Jr.², C. H. Yap¹

¹Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom; ²Department of Pediatrics, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, United States of America; ³Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC), Strasbourg, France; ⁴Department of Bioengineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, United States of America

A BIOPHYSICALLY DETAILED COMPUTATIONAL MODEL OF THE FOUR CHAMBER HUMAN HEART ELECTROMECHANICS

M. Fedele¹, R. Piersanti¹, F. Regazzoni¹, M. Salvador¹, P. C. Africa¹, M. Bucelli¹, A. Zingaro¹, L. Dede'¹, A. Quarteroni^1,2

¹Politecnico di Milano, Italy; ²École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

REGULATORY MECHANISMS IN CARDIAC ACTIVE MECHANICS: FROM MICROSCALE MODELS TO MULTISCALE NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS

F. Regazzoni¹, A. Quarteroni^1,2

¹MOX - Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; ²Mathematics Institute, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (Professor Emeritus)

STRAIN-CONTROLLED ENZYMIC COLLAGEN DEGRADATION CAN EXPLAIN THE HEALTHY NATIVE MYOCARDIAL FIBER ORGANIZATION AN IN-SILICO APPROACH

H. Hoursan^1,2, K. Janssens¹, T. Ristori^1,2, C. Bouten^1,2, P. Bovendeerd¹, S. Loerakker^1,2

¹Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands; ²Institute for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands.

A THERMODYNAMIC FRAMEWORK FOR SARCOMERE EVOLUTION IN CARDIOMYOCYTES SUBJECTED TO DYNAMIC LOADING

R. J. Coleman, P. McGarry

University of Galway, Ireland

WALL DISTENSIBILITY MODERATELY AFFECTS WALL SHEAR STRESS TOPOLOGICAL SKELETON AT THE CAROTID BIFURCATION

S. Zambon¹, M. Arminio¹, D. A. Steinman², C. Chiastra¹, U. Morbiducci¹, D. Gallo¹

¹Politecnico di Torino, Italy; ²University of Toronto, Canada

BLOOD FLOW MODELLING IN CORONARY ARTERIES: NEWTONIAN OR NON-NEWTONIAN?

G. De Nisco¹, M. Lodi Rizzini¹, R. Verardi², C. Chiastra¹, G. De Ferrari², F. D'Ascenzo², D. Gallo¹, U. Morbiducci¹

¹PoliToBIOMed Lab, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy; ²Hemodynamic Laboratory, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Italy

A SPATIALLY VARYING MULTI-COMPARTMENT MODEL OF THE REGULATION OF CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW AND VOLUME

S. J. Payne

National Taiwan University, Taiwan

DIGITAL TWIN ANALYSIS OF AORTIC ROOT FLOW DISTURBANCES FOLLOWING TRANSCATHETER IMPLANTATION AND 4D MRI

A. Banfalvi, S. Ringgaard, M. Abkar, P. Johansen, M. Colombo

Aarhus University, Denmark

THE EFFECT OF RESPIRATION ON THE IN-VIVO MECHANICAL EVALUATION OF LINEA ALBA BY SHEARWAVE ELASTOGRAPHY

C. Vergari, S. Persohn, P.-Y. Rohan

École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers, IBHGC-Institut de Biomécanique Humaine Georges Charpak, Paris, France

ESTIMATING CEREBRAL MECHANICAL PROPERTIES NON-INVASIVELY THROUGH THE USE OF TISSUE PULSATIONS IN THE HUMAN BRAIN

S. J. Payne¹, I. Henderson², A. Jerusalem², V. D. Nguyen², J. Nicholls³, J. Ince³, J. Minhas³, A. Lecchini-Visintini^3,4, E. Chung^3,5

¹National Taiwan University, Taiwan; ²Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK; ³CHiASM Research Group, NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, University of Leicester, UK; ⁴School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK; ⁵Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King’s College London, SE1 1UL

REGION-DEPENDENT MATERIAL PARAMETERS FOR FULL-SCALE HUMAN BRAIN SIMULATIONS

E. Griffiths, J. Hinrichsen, N. Reiter, S. Budday

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF THE HUMAN PIA-ARACHNOID COMPLEX

P. Vandemaele¹, H. Fehervary¹, L. Maes¹, B. Depreitere², J. Vander Sloten¹, N. Famaey¹

¹Biomechanics Section, KU Leuven, Belgium; ²Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Leuven, Belgium

BIOMECHANICS OF THE FETAL MEMBRANE UNDER DIFFERENT PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITIONS

D. Fidalgo¹, M. Oyen², D. Oliveira¹, M. Parente¹, R. Natal¹, K. Myers³

¹INEGI - Instituto de Ciência e Inovação em Engenharia Mecânica e Engenharia Industrial, Portugal; ²Washington University, United States; ³Columbia University in The City of New York, United States

BIOMECHANICAL INTEGRITY OF THE CERVIX IN PATIENTS AT LOW- AND HIGH-RISK OF PRETERM BIRTH

E. Louwagie¹, J. Hairston², M. Mourad², R. Wapner², K. Myers¹

¹Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, United States of America; ²Obstetrics and Gyencology, Columbia University, United States of America

A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE BIOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF PORCINE MENISCUS IN CONFINED COMPRESSION

L. de Roy¹, A. Morejon², A. R. Jackson², F. Travascio^2,3, A. M. Seitz¹

¹Institute of Orthopaedic Research and Biomechanics, University Ulm, Germany; ²Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of MiamiUniversity of Miami, USA; ³Max Biedermann Institute for Biomechanics at Mount Sinai Medical Center, USA

EXPERIMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF MECHANICAL CHANGES IN HUMAN OSTEOARTHRITIC CARTILAGE

A. Berardo^1,2, C. G. Fontanella³, I. Toniolo¹, G. Mazzucco¹, E. Belluzzi⁴, A. Pozzuoli⁴, P. Ruggieri⁴, E. L. Carniel³

¹Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Padova, Italy; ²Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Italy; ³Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Italy; ⁴Orthopedics and Orthopedic Oncology, DiSCOG, University of Padova, Italy

AGE INFLUENCE ON CUT-OUT RESISTANCE OF SUTURED MENISCUS: AN EXPERIMENTAL CADAVERIC STUDY

A. Peña-Trabalon, M. B. Estebanez-Campos, S. Moreno-Vegas, A. Perez-Blanca, M. Prado-Novoa

Clinical Biomechanics Laboratory of Andalusia (BIOCLINA), University of Malaga, Spain

PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS OF GEOMETRIC VARIANCE IN ARTICULAR CARTILAGE SAMPLE BIOMECHANICS USING FINITE ELEMENT

V. Jönsson, G. A. Orozco, L. Grassi, H. Isaksson

Department of Biomedical Engineering, Lund University

NON-INVASIVE MRI-BASED CHARACTERIZATION OF CARTILAGE DEGRADATION USING VIRTUAL FIELDS METHOD

I. Mohout¹, S. A. Elahi¹, L. Maes², P. Vandemaele², N. Famaey², I. Jonkers¹

¹Human Movement Biomechanics, KU Leuven, Belgium; ²Soft tissue biomechanics, KU Leuven, Belgium

REDUCTION OF STRAIN CLUSTERS IN INJURED HEEL FINITE ELEMENT MODELS WITH A NEW PRESSURE ULCER DRESSING

N. Fougeron¹, G. Chagnon¹, N. Connesson¹, T. Alonso¹, L. Pasquinet², S. Auguste², A. Perrier^1,3, Y. Payan¹

¹Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, UMR 5525, VetAgro Sup, Grenoble INP, TIMC, 38000 Grenoble, France; ²Urgo Research, Innovation & Development, 21300, Chenôve, France; ³Sorbonne Université Médecine; Assistance publique Hôpitaux de Paris (APHP), Service de Diabétologie, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière

LIMB FLEXION INDUCED DEFORMATION OF FEMOROPOPLITEAL ARTERY STENTS IN THIEL EMBALMED CADAVERS

S. Nandan¹, H. D. Simpson³, S. Clark³, C. Voustas³, M. Bernini¹, C. Dunlop², G. Houston³, R. Hellmuth², E. Dolan¹, T. Vaughan¹

¹Biomechanics Research Center, University of Galway, Ireland; ²Vascular Flow Technologies, Dundee, UK; ³Tayside Innovation MedTech Ecosystem, University of Dundee, UK

ROLE OF VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE CELL PHENOTYPE SWITCHING IN THE ROSS PROCEDURE: A COMPUTATIONAL STUDY

L. Maes, T. Vervenne, L. Van Hoof, A. Hendrickx, P. Verbrugghe, F. Rega, E. A. V. Jones, N. Famaey

KU Leuven, Belgium

ON THE IMPACT OF ARTERIAL MODELLING IN CORONARY STENTING SIMULATIONS: A VALIDATED STUDY ON 5 PATIENT-SPECIFIC CASES

G. Poletti¹, L. Antonini¹, G. S. Karanasiou², D. I. Fotiadis², L. Petrini³, G. Pennati¹

¹LaBS - Dept. of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; ²Dept. of Biomedical Research, FORTH-IMBB, GR 45110 Ioannina, Greece; ³Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

ULTRASTRUCTURAL STUDY OF INDUCED VASCULAR DAMAGE CAUSED BY IN VITRO STENTING

G. Sommer¹, M. Pranger², D. Kolb^2,3, G. Leitinger², G. A. Holzapfel^1,4

¹Institute of Biomechanics, Graz University of Technology, Austria; ²Gottfried Schatz Research Center, Medical University Graz, Austria; ³Core Facility Ultrastructure Analysis, Medical University Graz, Austria; ⁴Department of Structural Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway