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Patient-Specific Biomechanical Framework for Aiding Clinical Decisions in Eye Surgery

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Patient-Specific Computational Modeling

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics ((LNCVB,volume 5))

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Abstract

In this work we present the development of a patient-specific model of the eye for helping in different ophthalmologic surgical techniques. To build the model we use a simple general model on which we can add the patient specificities measured with proper equipment. The model of the eye is composed of several tissues that must be characterized to ensure that the model has a behavior similar to the real eye. Once the constitutive model is described and characterized for all the tissues included in the model, different surgical techniques can be accomplished. We present here the usefulness of this model to help in surgical planning of incisional surgery for the correction of astigmatism, the numerical analysis of the process of accommodation and the numerical simulation of the scleral buckling technique for retinal detachment.

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Acknowledgements

The authors gratefully acknowledge the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII) and the CIBER-BBN (Centro de Investigación Biomédica En Red en Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina) initiative, and also the research support of the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science through the research project DPI2008-02335.

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  1. Aragón Institute of Engineering Research (I3A), University of Zaragoza, María de Luna s/n, Edif. Betancourt, 50018, Zaragoza, Spain

    E. Lanchares, M. Malvè & B. Calvo

  2. Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN), C/Poeta Mariano Esquillor s/n, 50018, Zaragoza, Spain

    E. Lanchares, M. Malvè & B. Calvo

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Lanchares, E., Malvè, M., Calvo, B. (2012). Patient-Specific Biomechanical Framework for Aiding Clinical Decisions in Eye Surgery. In: Calvo Lopez, B., Peña, E. (eds) Patient-Specific Computational Modeling. Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4552-0_7

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