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Coupled Biomechanical Modeling of the Face, Jaw, Skull, Tongue, and Hyoid Bone

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The tissue scale is an important spatial scale for modeling the human body. Tissue-scale biomechanical simulations can be used to estimate the internal muscle stresses and bone strains during human movement, as well as the distribution of force in muscles with complex internal architecture and broad insertion areas. Tissue-scale simulations are of particular interest for muscle structures where the changes in the shape of the structure are functionally important, such as the face, tongue, and vocal tract. Biomechanical modeling of these structures has potential to improve our understanding of orofacial physiology in respiration, mastication, deglutition, and speech production. Biomechanical simulations of the face and vocal tract pose a challenging engineering problem due to the tight coupling of tissue dynamics between numerous structures: the face, lips, jaw, skull, tongue, hyoid bone, soft palate, pharynx, and larynx. In this chapter, we describe our efforts to develop novel tissue-scale modeling and simulation techniques targeted to orofacial anatomy. We will also review our efforts to apply such simulations to reveal the biomechanics underlying orofacial movements.

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Acknowledgments

We gratefully thank Pierre Badin at Gipsa-Lab Grenoble for providing the CT data used for subject specific morphology. We also thank Poul Nielson and collaborators at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute for their assistance with the subject-specific material properties experiments. We also thank ANSYS for making licenses available. Funding for this work has been provided by the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, 176 Thorvaldson Building, 110 Science Place, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 5C9, Canada

    Ian Stavness

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

    Mohammad Ali Nazari

  3. School of Engineering, Science and Primary Industries, Wintec, New Zealand

    Cormac Flynn

  4. Speech & Cognition Department, Gipsa-lab, UMR CNRS 5216, Grenoble INP & Grenoble University, Grenoble, France

    Pascal Perrier

  5. TIMC-IMAG Laboratory, CNRS UMR 5525, University Joseph Fourier, La Tronche, France

    Yohan Payan

  6. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

    John E. Lloyd & Sidney Fels

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Stavness, I. et al. (2014). Coupled Biomechanical Modeling of the Face, Jaw, Skull, Tongue, and Hyoid Bone. In: Magnenat-Thalmann, N., Ratib, O., Choi, H. (eds) 3D Multiscale Physiological Human. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6275-9_11

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