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Fig. 8.9 Comparison of simulation results with experimental data obtained from adipose tissue
indentation
respectively, Fig.
8.9
. The results obtained from the adipocytes and extracellular
matrix modelling reasonably fit the experimental data.
It may be concluded, in a first approximation, that the linear portion of the
experimental curve in Fig.
8.9
(normalized displacement \0.9) is dominated by
the contribution from the soft extracellular matrix and that during densification, the
contribution from the adipose cells increasingly prevails.
Thus, an additional possibility for tissue modelling, using the simulation tool to
gain deeper insight and visual perception in tissue deformation mechanics on the
micro-level, is provided.
