Debora Gil author Agnes Borras author Ruth Aris author Mariano Vazquez author Pierre Lafortune author Guillame Houzeaux author 2012 Springer Berlin Heidelberg Computational simulations of the heart are a powerful tool for a comprehensive understanding of cardiac function and its intrinsic relationship with its muscular architecture. Cardiac biomechanical models require a vector field representing the orientation of cardiac fibers. A wrong orientation of the fibers can lead to a non-realistic simulation of the heart functionality. In this paper we explore the impact of the fiber information on the simulated biomechanics of cardiac muscular anatomy. We have used the John Hopkins database to perform a biomechanical simulation using both a synthetic benchmark fiber distribution and the data obtained experimentally from DTI. Results illustrate how differences in fiber orientation affect heart deformation along cardiac cycle. IAM exported from refbase (http://refbase.cvc.uab.es/show.php?record=1987), last updated on Thu, 30 Jun 2016 13:33:56 +0200 text http://refbase.cvc.uab.es/files/GBA2012.pdf 10.1007/978-3-642-36961-2_29 IAM @ iam @ GBA2012 STACOM 2012 Springer Berlin Heidelberg conference publication 7746 253 260 978-3-642-36960-5 0302-9743