Biomechanical Modeling of the Human Heart - Modeling of the Ventricles, the Atria and the Pericardium and the Inverse Problem of Cardiac Mechanics

A biomechanical simulation framework has been developed which allows to simulate the contraction of the whole human heart. Further, an inverse solving algorithm has been developed, which works in an opposite manner and allows to reconstruct the active tension distribution from provided data of the motion of the heart surfaces, which can for example be extracted from medical imaging data. This allows for a personalization of the model based on clinical data.