Constitutive modelling of passive myocardium: a structurally based framework for material characterization

GA Holzapfel, RW Ogden - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2009‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
In this paper, we first of all review the morphology and structure of the myocardium and
discuss the main features of the mechanical response of passive myocardium tissue, which …

Multiphysics and multiscale modelling, data–model fusion and integration of organ physiology in the clinic: ventricular cardiac mechanics

R Chabiniok, VY Wang… - Interface …, 2016‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
With heart and cardiovascular diseases continually challenging healthcare systems
worldwide, translating basic research on cardiac (patho) physiology into clinical care is …

[HTML][HTML] Modelling the mechanical properties of cardiac muscle

PJ Hunter, AD McCulloch, H Ter Keurs - Progress in biophysics and …, 1998‏ - Elsevier
A model of passive and active cardiac muscle mechanics is presented, suitable for use in
continuum mechanics models of the whole heart. The model is based on an extensive …

[HTML][HTML] Electromechanical model of excitable tissue to study reentrant cardiac arrhythmias

MP Nash, AV Panfilov - Progress in biophysics and molecular biology, 2004‏ - Elsevier
We introduce the concept of a contracting excitable medium that is capable of conducting
non-linear waves of excitation that in turn initiate contraction. Furthermore, these kinematic …

Shear properties of passive ventricular myocardium

S Dokos, BH Smaill, AA Young… - American Journal of …, 2002‏ - journals.physiology.org
We examined the shear properties of passive ventricular myocardium in six pig hearts.
Samples (3× 3× 3 mm) were cut from adjacent regions of the lateral left ventricular midwall …

Computational mechanics of the heart

MP Nash, PJ Hunter - Journal of elasticity and the physical science of …, 2000‏ - Springer
Finite elasticity theory combined with finite element analysis provides the framework for
analysing ventricular mechanics during the filling phase of the cardiac cycle, when cardiac …

Finite element stress analysis of left ventricular mechanics in the beating dog heart

JM Guccione, KD Costa, AD McCulloch - Journal of biomechanics, 1995‏ - Elsevier
A three-dimensional finite element model was used to explore whether or not transmural
distributions of end-diastolic and end-systolic fiber stress are uniform from the apex to the …

Transverse shear along myocardial cleavage planes provides a mechanism for normal systolic wall thickening

IJ LeGrice, Y Takayama, JW Covell - Circulation research, 1995‏ - ahajournals.org
Recent studies in humans and other species show that there is substantial transverse shear
strain in the left ventricular myocardium, and others have shown transverse myocardial …

Laminar fiber architecture and three-dimensional systolic mechanics in canine ventricular myocardium

KD Costa, Y Takayama… - American Journal of …, 1999‏ - journals.physiology.org
Previous studies suggest that the laminar architecture of left ventricular myocardium may be
critical for normal ventricular mechanics. However, systolic three-dimensional deformation of …

[کتاب][B] Mathematically modelling the electrical activity of the heart: from cell to body surface and back again

A Pullan, ML Buist, LK Cheng - 2005‏ - books.google.com
This book on modelling the electrical activity of the heart is an attempt to describe continuum
based modelling of cardiac electrical activity from the cell level to the body surface (the …