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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biomech Model Mechanobiol. 2019 Apr 20;18(4):1197–1211. doi: 10.1007/s10237-019-01139-z

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

a Schematic diagram of the multi-scale reaction-diffusion-strain (RDE) model for cranial vault bone formation. b Schematic diagram showing the computational process. Structural analysis gives the strain field that is used to estimate the distribution of molecules and cells using the RDE model. Material properties of the domain are updated according to the distribution of cells, and then are used for structural analysis to estimate updated strain field.