Biomechanics of the Female Reproductive System: Breast and Pelvic Organs
From Model to Patient
- 1st Edition - April 21, 2023
- Editors: Mathias Brieu, Michel Cosson, Poul Nielsen
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 0 3 1 9 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 3 6 7 6 - 5
Biomechanics of the Female Reproductive System: Breast and Pelvic Organs: From Models to Patients synthesizes complementary advances in women’s reproductive biomechanics, medical i… Read more
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Request a sales quoteBiomechanics of the Female Reproductive System: Breast and Pelvic Organs: From Models to Patients synthesizes complementary advances in women’s reproductive biomechanics, medical imaging analysis, patient-specific characterization, and computational finite element models. The book discusses the biomechanical aspects related to the breast and female pelvic floor system at each step of development. The table of contents also covers certain events and diseases, including cancers, delivery, aging, breast, hysterectomy or prolapse surgery. It 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.
As part of Elsevier’s Biomechanics of Living Organs series, this book 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.
- 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
Students (graduated, PhD, post-doc), Biomedical Engineers, Biologists, Physio-Pathologists and Interventional gynecologists who need to understand fundamental concepts of biological systems, conduct experimental procedures, perform animal experiments, design and test clinical devices, and to develop biomechanical finite element computations to model reproductive system, breast or pelvic floor system, for a better understanding and treatments of this diseases and/or trauma
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Editor's biography of 2022
- Foreword
- Preface
- Note of the series editors
- Part 1: Backgrounds: anatomy, physiology, and physio-pathology
- Chapter 1: Pelvic floor functional anatomy
- Abstract
- 1.1. Overview
- 1.2. Levator ani
- 1.3. Connective tissue supports of the pelvic organs
- References
- Chapter 2: Epidemiology & pathophysiology of pelvic organ prolapse & urinary incontinence in women
- Abstract
- 2.1. Epidemiology of pelvic organ prolapse
- 2.2. Pathophysiology of pelvic organ prolapse
- 2.3. Epidemiology of urinary incontinence
- 2.4. Pathophysiology of urinary incontinence
- References
- Chapter 3: Current surgical treatments for women's genital prolapse
- Abstract
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Signs and symptoms of genital prolapse
- 3.3. Surgical indications and alternative treatments
- 3.4. Surgical techniques
- 3.5. Surgical strategies
- 3.6. Mechanical consequences of the different management options
- Chapter 4: Physiology and physiopathology of pregnancy and delivery
- Abstract
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Changes in biomechanical intrinsic characteristics during pregnancy
- 4.3. Pathophysiological process
- 4.4. Association with the mode of delivery and the risk of perineal trauma at childbirth
- 4.5. Biomechanics of spontaneous normal delivery
- 4.6. Peripartum biomechanical considerations
- 4.7. Model development, testing, and validation
- 4.8. Conclusion
- 4.9. List of Abreviations
- References
- Part 2: Mechanical properties – constitutive laws – experimental characterizations
- Chapter 5: Inverse problems in the characterization of soft connective tissue: perspective for reproduction system
- Abstract
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Common sources of inverse problem in soft tissue biomechanics
- 5.3. The finite element model updating method
- 5.4. Sequential methods
- 5.5. The virtual fields method
- 5.6. Conclusions and future directions emerging field of pelvic biomechanics
- References
- Chapter 6: Mechanical properties of women pelvic soft tissues
- Abstract
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. Vagina
- 6.3. Uterus
- 6.4. Uterosacral ligaments
- 6.5. Levator ani
- References
- Chapter 7: Mechanical properties of breast tissue
- Abstract
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. Mechanics of breast tissue
- 7.3. A community's use of mechanics
- 7.4. Final remarks and future directions
- References
- Chapter 8: Evolution of mechanical properties with pathology & aging: application to pelvic tissues?
- Abstract
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Mechanical properties of tissues
- 8.3. The mechanical importance of tissue composition and microstructure
- 8.4. Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 9: Mechanical properties of pelvic implants: interaction between implants and tissue
- Abstract
- 9.1. Motivation
- 9.2. Mechanical and physical properties of prosthetic meshes
- 9.3. Experimental mechanical characterization of prosthetic meshes
- 9.4. Numerical modeling of pelvic implants
- 9.5. Alternative materials: electrospun networks
- 9.6. What are the needs?
- References
- Chapter 10: Constitutive models of soft connective tissues under large strain: application to pelvic tissue?
- Abstract
- 10.1. Introduction
- 10.2. Mechanical formulation
- 10.3. Isotropic modeling
- 10.4. Anisotropic modeling
- 10.5. Conclusion
- References
- Part 3: Clinical imaging, investigations tools, and characterization
- Chapter 11: Medical imaging and patient-specific modeling of women pelvic system: application to magnetic resonance images
- Abstract
- Acknowledgements
- 11.1. Introduction
- 11.2. Materials and methods
- 11.3. Applications and discussion
- 11.4. Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 12: Quantitative assessment of pelvic mobility in women using MRI image analysis
- Abstract
- 12.1. Introduction
- 12.2. Method for quantifying pelvic mobility
- 12.3. Method for quantifying pelvic mobility
- 12.4. Inter-organs displacements
- 12.5. Discussion
- 12.6. Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 13: Patient-specific biomechanical modeling for applications in breast cancer diagnosis and treatment
- Abstract
- Acknowledgements
- 13.1. Introduction
- 13.2. Anatomical modeling
- 13.3. Applications
- 13.4. Challenges and opportunities
- References
- Chapter 14: Ultrasound elastography: in vivo assessment of tissue stiffness
- Abstract
- 14.1. Introduction
- 14.2. Principles of elastography
- 14.3. Clinical applications for breast and cervix
- 14.4. Conclusion
- References
- Part 4: From biomechanical models to medical devices, and patients treatments
- Chapter 15: Numerical simulation of vaginal delivery
- Abstract
- Acknowledgements
- 15.1. Introduction
- 15.2. The three phases of a vaginal birth
- 15.3. Interest to perform a childbirth training simulator
- 15.4. A real-time childbirth simulation
- 15.5. Accurate childbirth simulations
- 15.6. Conclusion & perspective
- References
- Chapter 16: Numerical models for breast surgery and reconstruction
- Abstract
- Acknowledgements
- 16.1. Introduction
- 16.2. Previous work on breast biomechanical modeling to aid registration and surgical planning
- 16.3. Towards surgical guidance
- 16.4. Symmetric biomechanically guided prone-to-supine breast image registration for surgical and radiotherapy planning
- 16.5. Multiscale mechano-biological finite element modeling of oncoplastic breast surgery: numerical study towards surgical planning and cosmetic outcome prediction
- 16.6. Conclusion
- Dedication
- References
- Chapter 17: A numerical model for prolapse surgery
- Abstract
- Abbreviations
- 17.1. Introduction
- 17.2. Material and methods
- 17.3. Results
- 17.4. Discussion
- 17.5. Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 18: Augmented reality biomechanical simulations for pelvic conditions diagnoses
- Abstract
- 18.1. Introduction
- 18.2. Simulation of deformable structures
- 18.3. Registration of biomechanical models
- 18.4. Applications
- 18.5. Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 19: Towards patient-specific treatment in gynecologic surgery: recent development and perspectives
- Abstract
- 19.1. Introduction
- 19.2. Research investigation needs
- 19.3. Perspectives: Use of numerical simulation for treatment improvement in gynecology
- References
- Index
- No. of pages: 532
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: April 21, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323903196
- eBook ISBN: 9780128236765
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Mathias Brieu
He is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering with a specialty in mechanics of materials and computational mechanics. Prior to joining Cal State LA, he was a Professor in a higher education school of engineering: Centrale Lille. He still interacts with his former institution and his research is developed in a synergy between France and the USA; his specialty now is Biomedical Engineering.
His research activities are based on the triptych of mechanics of materials: experimental characterization constitutive modelling, and numerical and computational methods.
He is focused on soft polymers and bio-polymers. His activities can be summarized in 3 fields:
•Behavior, and damage of synthetic polymers
•Behavior of human soft tissue and medical implants,
•Development and design of Medical Devices for patient-specific surgery.
Affiliations and expertise
PhD, Professor of mechanical engineering at California State University in Los Angeles, United States; Professor of mechanics at Centrale Lille, France.MC
Michel Cosson
Pr. Michel Cosson is the Medical director of the UNF3S French numerical university. He is involved in 3D anatomy and pedagogical research. He is also the Head of the Gynecological unit of the University Hospital in Lille, France and Professor of Gynecology Obstetrics at the Medical University. He is the author and co-author of several publications. Pr. Cosson’s areas of interest include biomechanical properties of pelvic tissues & 3D biomechanical simulation of the female pelvic cavity.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Lille University, France; President, Group for Pelviperineology of the French Medical Society of Gynecology and ObstetricsPN
Poul Nielsen
Poul's research focuses on using novel instrumentation, detailed computational models, and quantitative descriptions of physical processes to gain a better understanding of human physiology. Many of his projects couple mathematical modelling with innovative instrumentation to improve our ability to understand and interpret measurements of complex biological systems, subject to the constraints of well-understood physical conservation and balance laws.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Biomechanics and Computational Mechanics, Chair of the Physiome Incorporated Executive Committee and Member, VPH Institute Board of Directors, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland, New ZealandRead Biomechanics of the Female Reproductive System: Breast and Pelvic Organs on ScienceDirect