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The mechanical properties of skin have been studied for several decades; yet, to this day reported stiffness values for full-thickness skin or individual layers such as the epidermis, papillary dermis, reticular dermis, and subcutis vary drastically. In vivo and ex vivo measurement techniques include extension, indentation, and suction tests. At the same time, several new imaging modalities emerged that visualize tissue microstructure at length scales ranging from the cell to the organ level. Informed by the experimental characterization of mechanobiological skin properties, computational skin models aim at predicting the soft tissue response under various physiological conditions such as skin growth, scar tissue formation, and surgical interventions. The identification of corresponding model parameters plays a major role in improving the predictive capabilities of such constitutive models. Here, we first provide an overview of the most common measurement techniques and imaging modalities. We then discuss popular methods used for model parameter identification based on inverse methods.
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