ArticleBiomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology2025
Data-informed reconstruction of a bipennate muscle's aponeurosis and its fibre distribution for performing continuum-mechanical simulations.
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Alternatives to Diffusion-Tensor-Imaging tractography methods for determining fibre orientation fields in skeletal muscle include Laplacian flow simulations. Such methods require flux boundary conditions (BCs) at the tendons and/or along the inner aponeuroses, which can significantly influence the gradients of the resulting Laplacian flow. Herein, we propose a novel method based on solving the 3D steady-state thermal heat equations to determine the fibre architecture in a bi-pennate muscle, specifically the m. rectus femoris. Additionally, we propose a semi-automated algorithm that provides the geometrical representation of the anterior aponeurosis, which, along with the thermal-based fibre field, is particularly well suited for Finite Element (FE) simulations. The semi-automated reconstruction of the aponeurosis shows a good correlation with manual segmentation, yielding a dice coefficient (DSC) of 0.83. The metamodel-based approach resulted in fluxes with a mean angular deviation of
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