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In vivo stiffness properties of the canine diaphragm muscle

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A measuring system used to monitor the orthogonal stresses and strains in the plane of the passive canine diaphragm musclein vivo is described. The system consists of four topically applied force-displacement transducers, a laser-camera subsystem to determine the local radii of curvature and an abdominally situated pressure transducer. Experimental results show that the passive musclein situ behaves as an anisotropic linearly elastic material for loads in the physiological range. A model is proposed which describes the diaphragm's response to load in terms of two moduli. Values obtained experimentally for the moduli are discussed.

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  1. F. Gates & W. Zingg

    Present address: Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    F. Gates & D. McCammond

  2. Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

    W. Zingg

  3. Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    H. Kunov

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Gates, F., McCammond, D., Zingg, W. et al. In vivo stiffness properties of the canine diaphragm muscle. Med. Biol. Eng. Comput. 18, 625–632 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02443135

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