Measurements of soft-tissue mechanical properties to support development of a physically based virtual animal model

Abstract

Though the course of ongoing development of a dynamic “Virtual Rat”, the need for physically based simulation has been established. To support such physical modeling, data regarding the material properties of various tissues is required. We present the results of in vitro testing of rat organ tissues and discuss preliminary comparisons of the results with a Finite Element simulation of the test scenario and a method to extract parameters from test data.