The adoption of multiscale approaches by the biomechanical community has caused a
major improvement in quality in the mechanical characterization of soft tissues. The recent …

This special issue on “Smart Sensors for Healthcare and Medical Applications” focuses on
new sensing technologies, measurement techniques, and their applications in medicine and …

Corneal mechanical changes are believed to occur before any visible structural alterations
observed during routine clinical evaluation. This study proposed developing an …

This paper presents the results of the comparison between a proposed Fourth Order Elastic
Constants (FOECs) nonlinear model defined in the sense of Landau's theory, and the two …

The understanding of changes in the viscoelastic properties of cervical tissue during the
gestation process is a challenging problem. In this work, we explore the importance of …

Objective During pregnancy, the stiffness of the cervical tissue decreases long before the
cervical length decreases. Therefore, several approaches have been proposed in order to …

Experimental evidence on testing a non-ultrasonic-based probe for a new approach in
transluminal elastography was presented. The proposed modality generated shear waves …

The clinical ultrasound community demands mechanisms to obtain the viscoelastic
biomarkers of soft tissue in order to quantify the tissue condition and to be able to track its …

Measuring the mechanical nonlinear properties of the cornea remains challenging due to
the lack of consensus in the methodology and in the models that effectively predict its …

Uterine contractions during pregnancy drive birth, and peristalsis during menstrual cycles
not only expel menstrual blood, but also play significant roles in both sperm transport and …