Using liver phantoms for mimicking human tissue in clinical training, disease diagnosis, and
treatment planning is a common practice. The fabrication material of the liver phantom …

Tissue engineering involves the application of physical and life sciences to develop
functional substitutes for dysfunctional organs or tissue structures. From an engineering …

Decellularization, a technique used in liver regenerative medicine, is the removal of all the
cellular components from a tissue or organ, leaving behind an intact structure of extracellular …

Drug induced liver injury (DILI) is one of the major reasons of drug withdrawal during the
different phases of drug development. The later in the drug development a drug is …

Accurate characterization of the mechanical properties of soft tissues is important for
diagnosing medical pathologies and developing solutions for them. With the recent …

Background: Since the liver is one of the most important organs of the body that can be
injured during trauma, that is, during accidents like car crashes, understanding its …

Liver tissue engineering aims at the possibility of reproducing a fully functional organ for the
treatment of acute and chronic liver disorders. Approaches in this field endeavor to replace …

The characterization of the mechanical properties of soft human tissues is a formidable task
and forms an essential prerequisite to many applications in biomedical engineering and …

In this article, a novel protocol for mechanical testing, combined with finite element
modeling, is presented that allows the determination of the elastic modulus of normal and …

Abstract 89Anatomic models have an important role in the medical domain. However, soft
tissue mechanical properties' representation is limited in mass-produced and 3D-printed …