Biomechanics of the Female Reproductive System: Breast and Pelvic Organs

 Biomechanics of the female reproductive system provides an opportunity for students, researchers, clinicians, and engineers to study the main topics related to the biomechanics of the women's reproductive system in a single book written by a global base of experts. Women's reproductive system biomechanics is an interdisciplinary area of research, and this book takes an interdisciplinary view, pulling in perspectives from both engineering and medicine. This book encompasses a wide range of topics from basic sciences (Anatomy, Biology, Remodeling of tissue, Continuum mechanics, Image analysis, numerical simulation) to clinical applications, clinical planning, interventions, and surgical procedures. This book is the first to synthesize complementary advances in women's reproductive biomechanics; medical imaging analysis, patient-specific characterization, and computational finite element models are covered. It discusses all the biomechanical aspects related to the breast and female pelvic floor system at each step of its development. The table of contents also covers certain events and diseases: cancers, delivery, aging, breast, hysterectomy, or prolapse surgery. This book presents the main biomechanical experimental results obtained and models developed this last decade to highlight the importance of accounting for patient-specific history and aging characteristics to consider damage growth effect and impact. It is a new volume in Elsevier's Biomechanics of Living Organs series.   Introduces fundamental aspects of breast and pelvic floor Anatomy, Physiology, and Physiopathology Covers the most recent imaging techniques (such as image analysis reconstruction, elastography, tagged MRI, nondestructive inverse methods) developed to characterize patient-specific anatomy and mechanical properties characteristics Discusses the main computational studies performed this last decade, for modeling the delivery process and potential induced injury INDICE: Part I. Backgrounds: Anatomy, Physiology, Biology 1. Anatomy, physiology of women reproductive system: pelvic floor and breast 2. Physio-pathology and epidemiology of women pelvic floor, genital prolapse and incontinence, and breast cancer 3. Physiology and physiopathology of pregnancy and delivery 4. Current Surgical treatment of women pelvic floor 5. Biology, evolution with age and remodeling of reproductive tissues Part II. Mechanical Properties - Constitutive Laws - Experimental Characterizations 6. Non destructive characterization of soft connective tissue - perspective for reproduction system 7. Mechanical properties of women pelvic soft tissue 8. Behavior of cervix, before and during pregnancy 9. Mechanical properties of breast 10. Evolution of the mechanical properties with pathology or aging: application to pelvic tissue? 11. Mechanical properties of pelvic implants / Interaction between implants and tissue 12. Mechanical properties of breast implants/ Interaction between implants and tissue 13. Constitutive models of soft connective tissue under large strain: application to pelvic tissue? Part III. Clinical Imaging, Investigations Tools, and characterization 14. Medical imaging and patient-specific reconstruction of women pelvic system - application to Magnetic Resonance Images 15. Medical imaging and patient-specific modelling of breast deformation 16. Breast mMagnetic resonance elastography - identification of properties 17. Breast uUltrasound elastography - detection of lesions PART IV. From Biomechanical Models to Medical devices, and Patients treatments 18. Numerical simulation of delivery 19. Numerical model for breast surgery and reconstruction 20. Numerical model for prolapse surgery 21. Active numerical-physical model for training, and planning treatment 22. Towards patient-specific treatment - recent development and perspective

• ISBN: 978-0-323-90319-6
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 400
• Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2023
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés