Contents
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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Karol Miller
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Human Brain Anatomy in 3D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Wieslaw L. Nowinski
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Introduction to Brain Imaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Einat Liebenthal and Tarun Singhal
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Brain Tissue Mechanical Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Lynne E. Bilston
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Modelling of the Brain for Injury Simulation and Prevention . . . . . . . . 97
King H. Yang and Haojie Mao
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Biomechanical Modelling of the Brain for Neurosurgical
Simulation and Neuroimage Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Karol Miller, Adam Wittek, Angus C. R. Tavner,
and Grand Roman Joldes
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Biomechanical Modelling of the Brain for Neuronavigation
in Epilepsy Surgery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Karol Miller, Angus C. R. Tavner, Louis P. M. Menagé,
Nicholas Psanoudakis, Grand Roman Joldes, Simon K. Warfield,
Damon Hyde, and Adam Wittek
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Dynamics of Cerebrospinal Fluid: From Theoretical Models
to Clinical Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Laurent Geregele, Olivier Baledent, Romain Manet, Afroditi Lalou,
Slawomir Barszcz, Magdalena Kasprowicz, Piotr Smielewski,
John D. Pickard, Marek Czosnyka, and Zofia Czosnyka
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Modelling of Cerebrospinal Fluid Flow by Computational
Fluid Dynamics ............................................................. 215
Vartan Kurtcuoglu, Kartik Jain, and Bryn A. Martin
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