The breast is the most distinctive organ of women¿s anatomy, and it is vital to
support lactation. It is also an important organ in the social relations and affective
life of women. For these reasons, the studies related to women¿s breasts have
an undoubtable social importance, and this fact propitiates the collaboration of
multidisciplinary research teams and synergy between medical and engineering
knowledge and techniques.
The research conducted in the present thesis addresses the study and computerized
simulations of breast biomechanics through the use of the finite element method.
Given that the breast is a complex organ, this study focuses on breast mechanical
aspects analyzed from two real clinical situations of two patients. The first
analysis consists of the study of a breast affected by a tumor. A mammography
is simulated, and the results of the simulation are compared with those obtained
during the clinical practice. In the second analysis, an augmentation mammoplasty
is simulated, describing the computer model of a patient before the intervention.
In this study, the role played by computer simulations in the prediction of clinical
outcomes in both case studies is enforced. There are a vast number of studies concerning
mammography simulations, but not in the field of augmentation mammoplasties.
Moreover, there are still many computational aspects which need further
analysis and research.
Female breasts are heterogeneous organs consisting of soft tissues that provide a
complex mechanical response. In the present thesis, and with the aim of correctly
performing the corresponding computer simulations, a hyperelastic formulation of
the breast tissues is used, and the equations are implemented in non-linear finite
element models. The subsequent and necessary validation of the simulations is done
by comparing the simulation results with the clinical outcomes of the patients / Lapuebla Ferri, A. (2013). Biomecánica de la mama: aplicación del método de los elementos finitos a la localización de tumores en mamografías y a la simulación de mamoplastias de aumento [Tesis doctoral]. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/32957
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:upv.es/oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/32957 |
| Date | 21 October 2013 |
| Creators | Lapuebla Ferri, Andrés |
| Contributors | Jimenez Mocholi, Antonio José, Pérez del Palomar Aldea, Amaya, Universitat Politècnica de València. Departamento de Mecánica de los Medios Continuos y Teoría de Estructuras - Departament de Mecànica dels Medis Continus i Teoria d'Estructures |
| Publisher | Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València |
| Source Sets | Universitat Politècnica de València |
| Language | Spanish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion |
| Source | Riunet |
| Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/, info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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