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From: Influence of aging on dermal elastin fiber architecture and skin firmness assessed by finite element modeling

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Workflow for constructing a computational model of the dermis incorporating real elastin fiber geometry. (a) 3D reconstructed image of human dermis showing elastin fibers (red) extracted from confocal microscopy data. (b) Segmented and smoothed elastin fiber network geometry obtained from the image data. (c) Embedding of the reconstructed elastin fiber geometry into a 3D FE mesh of the surrounding dermal matrix. (d) Representation of elastin fibers as beam elements for FE analysis, capturing their individual geometries and orientations within the dermis.

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