Medical Image Analysis
Volume 14, Issue 2 , Pages 126-137, April 2010

Estimating zero-strain states of very soft tissue under gravity loading using digital image correlation☆☆☆☆☆

Robotics, Automation, Manipulation, and Sensing (RAMS) Laboratory, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA

Received 15 April 2009; received in revised form 2 November 2009; accepted 9 November 2009. published online 16 November 2009.

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 Portions reprinted, with permission, from: “Zhan Gao, Kevin Lister, and Jaydev P. Desai, 2008. Constitutive modeling of liver tissue: Experiment and theory. In: 2nd IEEE RAS & EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, BioRob 2008, pp. 477–482. October 19–22, 2008, Scottsdale, AZ” ©2008 IEEE.

☆☆ Portions reprinted, with permission, from: “Zhan Gao, Theodore Kim, Doug L. James, Jaydev P. Desai, 2009. Semi-Automated Soft-Tissue Acquisition and Modeling for Surgical Simulation. In: 5th Annual IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2009, pp. 268–273. August 22–25, 2009, Bangalore, India.” ©2009 IEEE.

☆☆☆ With kind permission from Springer Science+Business Media: Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Constitutive modeling of liver tissue: experiment and theory, 2009, DOI: 10.1007/s10439-009-9812-0, Zhan Gao, Kevin Lister, Jaydev P. Desai, Figs. 3 and 4, which are Figs. 1 and 2 in this paper.

PII: S1361-8415(09)00139-X

doi:10.1016/j.media.2009.11.002

Medical Image Analysis
Volume 14, Issue 2 , Pages 126-137, April 2010