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I finished my experience in the Summer School entitled "Computational Tissue Biomechanics: From in-vitro experiment to computational analysis". The course introduces and applies state-of-the-art tools in the continuum mechanical…
Read more : Biomechanics Summer School
Cardiovascular diseases are the cause of numerous deaths. Among these, abdominal aortic aneurysms are very dangerous for which adequate techniques for diagnosis and prevention have not yet been developed. The implementation of…
Read more : Aneurysm and biomechanics of vessels
The characterization of the mechanical properties of the cell is of great importance for estimating its biological state and physiology. Among the different measurement techniques, through the microrheometer it is possible to…
Read more : Microrheometer and viscoelastic properties of cells
The equivalent circuit model for a parallel electrode impedance cytometer is analyzed together with Maxwell's theory of homogenization of mixtures. It deals with both single shell and double shell cell modeling. The results show…
Read more : Impedance cytometer and circuit equivalent
Mathematical modeling of diffusion mechanisms for drug delivery can be very useful for accelerating product development and for better understanding the mechanisms that control drug delivery from advanced delivery systems. The…
Read more : Diffusion and FEA for drug-eluting spheres
Glucose is essential for human life and its concentration in the blood is strictly regulated. Alterations in blood glucose are a sign of numerous diseases and several clinical tests are used for diagnosis. The IVGTT test is a…
Read more : Glucose minimal model and IVGTT test
Physiological reflexes are the basis of the organism's survival. These reflexes allow, in a completely involuntary way, to maintain homeostasis. Variations in environmental variables or the appearance of a new signal induce a…
Read more : Physiological reflexes and control systems
In impedance cytometry, various design and post processing techniques have been developed to improve measurement accuracy. One of the parameters that most afflicts cytometry measurements is the dependence of the signal on the…
Read more : Curve fitting and compensation for impedance cytometry signals
FEM analysis aimed at characterizing the mechanical behavior of the stem of a hip prosthesis inserted inside a femur. The following article is an extract from a project carried out for the course of Advanced Techniques for the…
Read more : Mechanical simulation of hip implant
A linear model of lung mechanics is analyzed in the following report. The model corresponds to an RLC circuit with unknown parameters. Parametric identification allows to trace the system governance coefficients once a mathematical…
Read more : Parametric identification for respiratory mechanics
Pulmonary ventilation is a critical operation both during surgery and for assisted or replacement ventilation of the patient. This report proposes the analysis of a lung mechanics model through an electrical analogy with an…
Read more : Lung ventilation in Simulink
The following report introduces various simulation campaigns aimed at homogenizing trabecular bone tissue. Background , analyzing the structure of the trabecular bone it is evident how the shape of the pores and the trabecular…
Read more : Numerical homogenization of trabecular bone