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Amirkabir university of technology

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Engineering

Measuring Local Tissue Strains in Tendons via Open-Source Digital Image Correlation

Stanton Godshall¹, Krishna Pedaprolu¹, Erica Vasti¹, Faezeh Eskandari², Spencer E. Szczesny^1,3

¹Department of Biomedical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, ²Department of Biomedical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, ³Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Pennsylvania State University

This paper describes an open-source digital image correlation algorithm for measuring local 2D tissue strains within tendon explants. The accuracy of the technique has been validated using multiple techniques, and it is available for public use.