Soft materials often exhibit a distinctive power-law viscoelastic response arising from broad
distribution of time-scales present in their complex internal structure. A promising tool to …

This review provides the latest developments and trends in the application of fractional
calculus (FC) in biomedicine and biology. Nature has often showed to follow rather simple …

The clinical description that defines acute lung injury (ALI) has been around for more than
50 years. The clinical picture has carried many different definitions, but what was known as …

Fractional Calculus and Waves in Linear Viscoelasticity (Second Edition) is a self-contained
treatment of the mathematical theory of linear (uni-axial) viscoelasticity (constitutive equation …

Acute respiratory distress syndrome is a multifactorial lung injury that continues to be
associated with high levels of morbidity and mortality. Mechanical ventilation, although …

With mathematical and computational models furthering our understanding of lung
mechanics, function and disease, this book provides an all-inclusive introduction to the topic …

The technique of MR elastography (MRE) has emerged as a useful modality for
quantitatively imaging the mechanical properties of soft tissues in vivo. Recently, MRE has …

Non-invasive evaluation of liver fibrosis has evolved over the last couple of decades.
Currently, elastography techniques are the most widely used non-invasive methods for …

We used a novel uniaxial stretching rheometer to measure the creep function J (t) of an
isolated living cell. We show, for the first time at the scale of the whole cell, that J (t) behaves …

The biomechanical properties of connective tissues play fundamental roles in how
mechanical interactions of the body with its environment produce physical forces at the …