title: Comments on "Viscoelastic studies of human subscapularis tendon: relaxation test and a Wiechert model" by C. Machiraju, A.V. Phan, A.W. Pearsall, S. Madanagopal, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine (2006).
abstract: Referring to the approach for determining the material parameters for a Wiechert model of the human subscapularis tendon proposed by Machiraju et al. [C. Machiraju, A.V. Phan, A.W. Pearsall, S. Madanagopal, Viscoelastic studies of a human subscapularis tendon: relaxation test and a Wiechert model, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine (2006), doi:10.1016/j.cmpb.2006.05.004], some comments are made on the basis of the result of an alternative method that is capable of giving more reasonable values for the Wiechart model with the fitting discrepancies minimized by a multi-variable optimization strategy.
authors.forename: Z W
authors.initials: ZW
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: C Y
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Tang
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D004548:Elasticity; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D017006:Rotator Cuff / Q000502:physiology; D012785:Shoulder Joint / Q000502:physiology; D013710:Tendons / Q000502:physiology*; D014783:Viscosity