IN VIVO INDENTIFICATION OF THE PASSIVE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF DEEP SOFT TISSUES IN THE HUMAN LEG

International audience; Compression of the lower leg using medical compression stockings or bandages is a widely used treatment. We submit that the mechanical properties of soft tissues in the lower limb play a major role during compressive treatments of venous deficiency [1] and that predictive biomechanical models could help to better adapt the treatment to the specificity of each patient. A challenging step of the development of such models is to identify the mechanical properties of soft tissues for each patient [2]-[4].We recently developed a non-invasive and fast inverse approach to address this challenge. In this communication, the approach is described and assessed on several volunteers, showing promising results for an extension to large-size cohort of patients.