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List of works by Thomas Franz

A Computational Study of the Injection Therapy for Myocardial Infarction during the Necrotic Stage

A Preliminary Computational Investigation Into the Flow of PEG in Rat Myocardial Tissue for Regenerative Therapy

scientific article published on 07 August 2019

A computational study of knitted Nitinol meshes for their prospective use as external vein reinforcement

scientific article published on 6 March 2008

A constitutive model for the warp-weft coupled non-linear behavior of knitted biomedical textiles

scientific article published on 4 August 2010

A mathematical method for constraint-based cluster analysis towards optimized constrictive diameter smoothing of saphenous vein grafts

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A simple fluid-structure coupling algorithm for the study of the anastomotic mechanics of vascular grafts

scientific article published in December 2010

A validated patient-specific FSI model for vascular access in haemodialysis

scientific article published on 14 November 2017

An analytical model describing the mechanics of erythrocyte membrane wrapping during active invasion of a plasmodium falciparum merozoite

scientific article published in 2023

Analytical modeling of the mechanics of early invasion of a merozoite into a human erythrocyte

scientific article published on 15 September 2017

Aortic valve leaflet mechanical properties facilitate diastolic valve function

scientific article published in January 2010

Cell focal adhesion clustering leads to decreased and homogenized basal strains

scientific article published on 10 October 2019

Cell specific ingrowth hydrogels

scientific article published on 15 June 2013

Cellular mechanosensitivity to substrate stiffness decreases with increasing dissimilarity to cell stiffness.

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Characterisation of the mechanical properties of infarcted myocardium in the rat under biaxial tension and uniaxial compression

scientific article published on 5 July 2016

Computational and numerical modelling in neuromechanics and biomechanics

scientific article published on 07 September 2012

Computational mechanics and electro-mechanics in cardiovascular physiology and disease

scientific article published on 27 November 2013

Constrictive external nitinol meshes inhibit vein graft intimal hyperplasia in nonhuman primates

scientific article published on 7 July 2008

Construction and Validation of Subject-Specific Biventricular Finite-Element Models of Healthy and Failing Swine Hearts From High-Resolution DT-MRI.

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Customized stent-grafts for endovascular aneurysm repair with challenging necks: A numerical proof of concept

scientific article published on 05 February 2020

Degradation-induced changes of mechanical properties of an electro-spun polyester-urethane scaffold for soft tissue regeneration.

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Dimensional analysis of human saphenous vein grafts: Implications for external mesh support

scientific article published on 23 February 2009

Does cell mechanics in adipogenesis offer new keys for the prevention and management of obesity?

scientific article published on March 2014

Dual electrospinning with sacrificial fibers for engineered porosity and enhancement of tissue ingrowth

scientific article published on 29 April 2016

Effect of intra-myocardial Algisyl-LVR™ injectates on fibre structure in porcine heart failure

scientific article published on 10 July 2018

Endothelial cells on an aged subendothelial matrix display heterogeneous strain profiles in silico

scientific article published on 25 May 2018

Excessive volume of hydrogel injectates may compromise the efficacy for the treatment of acute myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 28 January 2016

In silico stress fibre content affects peak strain in cytoplasm and nucleus but not in the membrane for uniaxial substrate stretch

scientific article published on 14 August 2021

Infarcted rat myocardium: Data from biaxial tensile and uniaxial compressive testing and analysis of collagen fibre orientation.

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Injectable living marrow stromal cell-based autologous tissue engineered heart valves: first experiences with a one-step intervention in primates

scientific article published on 17 March 2011

Investigating the Role of Interventricular Interdependence in Development of Right Heart Dysfunction During LVAD Support: A Patient-Specific Methods-Based Approach.

scientific article published on 11 May 2018

Kinematic boundary conditions substantially impact in silico ventricular function

scientific article published on 07 October 2018

Knitted nitinol represents a new generation of constrictive external vein graft meshes

scientific article published on 29 July 2011

Long-term left ventricular remodelling in rat model of nonreperfused myocardial infarction: sequential MR imaging using a 3T clinical scanner

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Mechanical loadings on pectoral pacemaker implants: correlation of in-line and transverse force of the Pectoralis major

scientific article published on 5 June 2010

Micro-structurally detailed model of a therapeutic hydrogel injectate in a rat biventricular cardiac geometry for computational simulations.

scientific article published on 20 May 2013

Modification, crosslinking and reactive electrospinning of a thermoplastic medical polyurethane for vascular graft applications.

scientific article published on 18 January 2010

Numerical studies of problems in biophysics, biomechanics and mechanobiology

scientific article published on 01 January 2012

Off-the-shelf human decellularized tissue-engineered heart valves in a non-human primate model

scientific article published on 28 June 2013

Outcomes of myocardial infarction hydrogel injection therapy in the human left ventricle dependent on injectate distribution

scientific article published on 03 May 2013

Partial LVAD restores ventricular outputs and normalizes LV but not RV stress distributions in the acutely failing heart in silico.

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Patient-specific prediction of intrinsic mechanical loadings on sub-muscular pectoral pacemaker implants based on an inter-species transfer function

scientific article published on 6 August 2011

Personalised computational cardiology: Patient-specific modelling in cardiac mechanics and biomaterial injection therapies for myocardial infarction.

scientific article published on February 2016

Protective constriction of coronary vein grafts with knitted nitinol.

scientific article published on 07 January 2013

Remodeling leads to distinctly more intimal hyperplasia in coronary than in infrainguinal vein grafts

scientific article published on 2 March 2012

Stress state and strain rate dependence of the human placenta

scientific article published on 12 May 2012

Studying the influence of hydrogel injections into the infarcted left ventricle using the element-free Galerkin method.

scientific article published on 26 December 2013

Tailored sizes of constrictive external vein meshes for coronary artery bypass surgery

scientific article published on 22 September 2010

The anisotropic mechanical behaviour of electro-spun biodegradable polymer scaffolds: Experimental characterisation and constitutive formulation.

scientific article published on 6 August 2015

The beneficial effects of deferred delivery on the efficiency of hydrogel therapy post myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 9 December 2011

The effect of hydrogel injection on cardiac function and myocardial mechanics in a computational post-infarction model

scientific article published on 22 March 2012

The in vivo assessment of mechanical loadings on pectoral pacemaker implants

scientific article published on 3 March 2010

The use of finite element methods and genetic algorithms in search of an optimal fabric reinforced porous graft system

scientific article published on 6 August 2009

Tissue Ingrowth Markedly Reduces Mechanical Anisotropy and Stiffness in Fibre Direction of Highly Aligned Electrospun Polyurethane Scaffolds

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

Utilization of shape memory in external vein-graft meshes allows extreme diameter constriction for suppressing intimal hyperplasia: a non-human primate study

scientific article published in June 2009