Biomechanical Techniques for Biomedical Imaging

Dear Colleagues,

Biomechanical imaging (BMI) has spread during the last decade as a promisng and powerful tool in biomedicine with increasing fields of application. Knowledge of mechanical properties of biological tissues such as elastic modulus, stiffness, viscosity, or viscoelasticity are crucial to understanding the structural integrity and organization that allow mechanobiology to function as a biomarker for distinguishing between health and diseased tissues. Current methods to measure biomechanical properties, such as tridimensional elasticity imaging, ultrasound elastography, and acoustic model-based imaging technologies have demonstrated in vivo biomechanical tridimensional resolution in biomedical imaging. Those imaging techniques have been expanded in parallel with computational and predictive methods in biomechanics for resolving inverse problems of viscoelastic nonlinearity of biological tissues.

We request contributions presenting imaging techniques that will contribute to highlighting the current state of the art in biomechanical imaging as well as computational models contributing to the study of mechanobiology.

Dr. Francisco Avila Gomez
Dr. Laura Remón
Guest Editors

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