Modelling of biological systems themed issue

Abstract

Many of the papers have a clinical focus. Fernandez & Pandy (2006), for example, propose a framework for incorporating lower limb gait analysis data, ground reaction force data and EMG data into subject-specific models of walking based on solving the equations of continuum mechanics on models that incorporate the 3-D anatomy of the major muscle groups of the leg. The paper by Buist et al. (2006) links gastric slow wave activity on anatomically based models of the stomach to clinical measurements of the electromagnetic fields produced by these waves under conditions of cellular uncoupling induced by ischaemia.