The promise of prediction: biomechanical analyses in neuro-ophthalmology.
The promise of prediction: biomechanical analyses in neuro-ophthalmology.
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预测的希望:神经眼科的生物力学分析。
DOI:
10.1097/wno.0000000000000192
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2014
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Downs,JCrawford
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Downs,JCrawford
Biomechanics is the study of the mechanical interaction of solids and/or fluids with internal and external forces in the context of biology. It has long been a mainstay in the cardiovascular and orthopedic fields, where it has been used to analyze and predict the mechanical and biological mechanisms underlying bone fractures, hard and soft tissue remodeling, and blood flow through arterial stents and aneurysms. Biomechanical techniques are critical in optimizing cardiac and orthopedic implant designs for maximum clinical efficacy and life.Ocular biomechanics primarily has been focused on diseases of the cornea, trabecular meshwork, sclera, and optic nerve head with limited use in the vitreous, lens, and iris. It has provided insight into disease processes and surgical outcome in various eye disorders. For example, in glaucoma, ocular biomechanics has been used to analyze and predict the importance of the sclera in determining the biomechanics of the lamina cribrosa, the site of axonal damage in glaucoma. Biomechanical engineers use cutting-edge engineering-based computational and experimental techniques to investigate the interaction of ocular tissues with their surroundings, and the forces that are common in the eye are intraocular pressure, tensile and torsional muscle tractions, blood flow and vascular pressures, external traumatic forces, cerebrospinal fluid pressure, and tissue growth pressures. The tools bioengineers use include finite element modeling, a computational technique to split complex geometries such as the lamina cribrosa into small regularly shaped elements, for which loading, mechanical stress (force distribution), and mechanical strain (local deformation) are calculated individually. The results of each of these simple elemental responses are then added up, or superposed, into the overall response of the structure. Experimental measures of tissue deformation under load can now be obtained with imaging techniques, such as ultrasound biomicroscopy, optical coherence tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging, and these observations can be used to validate computational biomechanics simulations.
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