Marco Viceconti

Multiscale Modeling of the Skeletal System

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Systematically working from the whole body down to cellular levels, this book presents a multiscale, integrative approach to skeletal research.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 570g
• ISBN-13: 9780521769501
• ISBN-10: 0521769507
• Artikelnr.: 34438873

Autorenporträt

Marco Viceconti is a world expert in the computational modeling of musculoskeletal systems. The primary driving force behind the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) Initiative, which aims to develop the methods and technologies to make possible the dream of systems biology, physiome and systems medicine, he is currently the Director of the VPH Institute, the international no-profit organisation that drives the VPH Initiative.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Methodological aspects
3. The body level
4. Organ level: the bones
5. Tissue level: mineralised extracellular matrix
6. Cells level: cells-matrix interaction
7. Applications of multiscale modeling
8. Multiscale modeling
Index.