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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Apr 26.
Published in final edited form as: Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2009;2009:262–265. doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5332872

Fig. 5.

Fig. 5

Displacement of material as the needle tip interacts with a soft solid and in order to accommodate the needle tip, results in a load distribution along the edges of the needle tip.