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Automated generation of tissue-specific three-dimensional finite element meshes containing ellipsoidal cellular inclusions.

Abstract：

:Finite element analysis provides a means of describing cellular mechanics in tissue, which can be useful in understanding and predicting physiological and pathological changes. Many prior studies have been limited to simulations of models containing single cells, which may not accurately describe the influence of mechanical interactions between cells. It is desirable to generate models that more accurately reflect the cellular organisation in tissue in order to evaluate the mechanical function of cells. However, as the model geometry becomes more complicated, manual model generation can become laborious. This can be prohibitive if a large number of distinct cell-scale models are required, for example, in multiscale modelling or probabilistic analysis. Therefore, a method was developed to automatically generate tissue-specific cellular models of arbitrary complexity, with minimal user intervention. This was achieved through a set of scripts, which are capable of generating both sample-specific models, with explicitly defined geometry, and tissue-specific models, with geometry derived implicitly from normal statistical distributions. Models are meshed with tetrahedral (TET) elements of variable size to sufficiently discretise model geometries at different spatial scales while reducing model complexity. The ability of TET meshes to appropriately simulate the biphasic mechanical response of a single-cell model is established against that of a corresponding hexahedral mesh for an illustrative use case. To further demonstrate the flexibility of this tool, an explicit model was developed from three-dimensional confocal laser scanning image data, and a set of models were generated from a statistical cellular distribution of the articular femoral cartilage. The tools presented herein are free and openly accessible to the community at large.

journal_name

Comput Methods Biomech Biomed Engin

journal_title

Computer methods in biomechanics and biomedical engineering

authors

Bennetts CJ,Sibole S,Erdemir A

doi

10.1080/10255842.2014.900545

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2015-01-01 00:00:00

pages

1293-304

issue

eissn

1025-5842

issn

1476-8259

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Automated generation of tissue-specific three-dimensional finite element meshes containing ellipsoidal cellular inclusions.