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Soft Tissue Properties and Modeling.- Experimental Observation and Modelling of Preconditioning in Soft Biological Tissues.- The Effects of Testing Environment on the Viscoelastic Properties of Soft Tissues.- Comparison of Linear and Non-linear Soft Tissue Models with Post-operative CT Scan in Maxillofacial Surgery.- Characterization of Soft-Tissue Material Properties: Large Deformation Analysis.- Design, Development, and Testing of an Automated Laparoscopic Grasper with 3-D Force Measurement Capability.- A Finite Element Study of the Influence of the Osteotomy Surface on the Backward Displacement during Exophthalmia Reduction.- Liver Vessel Parameter Estimation from Tactile Imaging Information.- A Nonlinear Finite Element Model of Soft Tissue Indentation.- Indentation for Estimating the Human Tongue Soft Tissues Constitutive Law: Application to a 3D Biomechanical Model.- Comparison of Knee Cruciate Ligaments Models Using In-vivo Step Up-Down Kinematics.- Real-Time Deformable Models.- Multigrid Integration for Interactive Deformable Body Simulation.- A Suture Model for Surgical Simulation.- Real-Time Incision Simulation Using Discontinuous Free Form Deformation.- An Interactive Parallel Multigrid FEM Simulator.- On Extended Finite Element Method (XFEM) for Modelling of Organ Deformations Associated with Surgical Cuts.- Mechanical Representation of Shape-Retaining Chain Linked Model for Real-Time Haptic Rendering.- Interactive Real-Time Simulation of the Internal Limiting Membrane.- Haptic Rendering.- Haptic Display for All Degrees of Freedom of a Simulator for Flexible Endoscopy.- Surface Contact and Reaction Force Models for Laparoscopic Simulation.- A New Methodology to Characterize Sensory Interaction for Use in Laparoscopic Surgery Simulation.- A Study on the Perception of Haptics in Surgical Simulation.- Anatomical Modeling.- Image-Guided Analysis of Shoulder Pathologies: Modelling the 3D Deformation of the Subacromial Space during Arm Flexion and Abduction.- The Application of Embedded and Tubular Structure to Tissue Identification for the Computation of Patient-Specific Neurosurgical Simulation Models.- Soft Tissue Surface Scanning – A Comparison of Commercial 3D Object Scanners for Surgical Simulation Content Creation and Medical Education Applications.- Coherent Scene Generation for Surgical Simulators.- Build-and-Insert: Anatomical Structure Generation for Surgical Simulators.- Applications and Development Frameworks.- GiPSi: An Open Source/Open Architecture Software Development Framework for Surgical Simulation.- CathI – Training System for PTCA. A Step Closer to Reality.- Physical Model Language: Towards a Unified Representation for Continuous and Discrete Models.- Multi-axis Mechanical Simulator for Epidural Needle Insertion.- Towards a Complete Intra-operative CT-Free Navigation System for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction.- A Framework for Biomechanical Simulation of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery Interventions.