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Daniel Cortes

Associate Professor

Affiliation(s):

  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Center for Acoustics and Vibration

329 Leonhard Building

dhc13@psu.edu

814-863-3103

Personal or Departmental Website

Research Areas:

Biomechanics and Mechanobiology

 
 

 

Education

  • BS, Mechanical Engineering, Universidad del Valle, 2002
  • MS, Mechanical Engineering, Universidad del Valle, 2004
  • Ph D, Mechanical Engineering, West Virginia University, 2009

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Hanife T Kumru, Anilchandra Attaluri, Vitaly Gordin and Daniel Cortes Correales, 2023, "Finite element simulation of proportional, integral, and derivative-controlled bipolar radiofrequency ablation of porcine spinal muscle", ASME Journal of Engineering and Science in Medical Diagnostics and Therapy, 6, (2), pp. 8
  • Andrew L Sprague, Christian Couppe, Ryan T Pohlig, Daniel Cortes and Karin G Silbernagel, 2022, "Relationships between tendon structure and clinical impairments in patients with patellar tendinopathy", Journal of Orthopaedic Research
  • Sayedali Sadeghi and Daniel Cortes Correales, 2020, "Measurement of the shear modulus in thin-layered tissues using numerical simulations and shear wave elastography", Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 102, pp. 103502
  • Sayedali Sadeghi, Matthew Johnson, Dov Bader and Daniel Cortes Correales, 2019, "Change of shear modulus of lower-leg muscles immediately after exercise in healthy individuals: towards a non-invasive protocol for diagnosis of chronic exertional compartment syndrome", ASME Journal of Engineering and Science in Medical Diagnostics and Therapy, 2, (3), pp. 7
  • Sayedali Sadeghi, Kevin Quinlan, Kirsten Eilertson, Gregory G Billy, Jesse Bible, Jacklyn M Sions and Daniel Cortes Correales, 2019, "Changes in shear modulus of the lumbar multifidus muscle during different body positions", ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, 141, (8), pp. 7
  • Patrick D Corrigan, Jennifer A Zellers, Phoebe Balascio, Karin Gravare Silbernagel and Daniel Cortes Correales, 2019, "Quantification of mechanical properties in healthy Achilles tendon using continuous shear wave elastography: a reliability and validation tudy", Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 45, (7), pp. 11
  • Patrick D Corrigan, Daniel Cortes Correales and Karin Gravare Silbernagel, 2019, "Immediate effect of photobiomodulation therapy on Achilles tendon morphology and mechanical properties: An exploratory study", Translational Sports Medicine, 2, (4), pp. 8
  • Sayedali Sadeghi, Matthew Johnson, Dov Bader and Daniel Cortes Correales, 2019, "The shear modulus of lower-leg muscles correlates to intramuscular pressure", Journal of Biomechanics, 83, pp. 190-196
  • Jennifer A Zellers, Daniel Cortes Correales, Ryan T Pohlig and Karin G Silbernagel, 2018, "Tendon morphology and mechanical properties assessed by ultrasound show change early in recovery and potential prognostic ability of 6-month outcomes", Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy, 27, pp. 8
  • Sayedali Sadeghi, Che Yu Lin, Dov A Bader and Daniel Cortes Correales, 2018, "Evaluating changes in shear modulus of elbow ulnar collateral ligament in overhead throwing athletes over the course of a competition season", American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Journal of Engineering and Science in Medical Diagnostics and Therapy, 1, (4), pp. 4041503
  • Patrick D Corrigan, Daniel Cortes Correales, Laura Pontiggia and Karin G Silbernagel, 2018, "The degree of tendinosis is related to symptom severity and physical activity levels in patients with midportion achilles tendinopathy", The International Journal of Sports and Physical Therapy, 13, (2), pp. 11
  • Sayedali Sadeghi, Cassidy Newman and Daniel Cortes Correales, 2018, "Change in skeletal muscle stiffness after running competition is dependent on both running distance and recovery time", PeerJ, 6, pp. 19
  • Jennifer A Zellers, Patrick D Corringan, Daniel Cortes Correales and Karin Silbernagel, 2017, "Side-to-side differences in achilles tendon geometry and mechanical properties following achilles tendon rupture", Muscle, Ligaments and Tendons Journal, 7, (3), pp. 541-547
  • Che-Yu Lin, Sayedali Sadeghi, Dov Bader and Daniel Cortes Correales, 2017, "Ultrasound shear wave elastography of the elbow ulnar collateral ligament: reliability test and a preliminary case study in a baseball pitcher", ASME Journal of Engineering and Science in Medical Diagnostics and Therapy, 1, (1), pp. 011004
  • Stephen M Suydam, Daniel Cortes Correales, Michael J Axe, Lynn Snyder-Mackler and Thomas S Buchanan, 2017, "Semitendinosus tendon for ACL reconstruction: regrowth and mechanical property recovery", Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine, 5, (4), pp. 2325967117712944
  • Che-Yu Lin, Hung-Jui Chuang and Daniel Cortes Correales, 2017, "Investigation of the optimum heel pad stiffness: a modeling study", Australasian Physical and Engineering Science in Medicine, 40, (3), pp. 585-593
  • Sayedali Sadeghi, Sean Rothenberger, Dooman Akbarian and Daniel Cortes Correales, 2017, "Effect of frequency and focal depth of push pulses on acoustic intensity, mechanical index, and shear wave amplitude for elastography imaging", Journal of Biomedical Engineering, 3, (1)
  • Jennifer A Zellers, Daniel Cortes Correales and Karin G Silbernagel, 2016, "From acute achilles tendon rupture to return to play – recovery of tendon structure, mechanical properties, clinical, and functional outcomes", International Journal of Sports Physical Therapy, 11, (7), pp. 1150-1159
  • Brent Showalter, John Delucca, John Peloquin, Daniel Cortes Correales, Jonathon Yoder, Nathan Jacobs, Alexander Wright, James Gee, Edward Vresilovic and Dawn Elliott, 2016, "A novel human intervertebral disc strain template to quantify regional three-dimensional strains in a population and compare to internal strains predicted by a finite element model", Journal of Orthopaedic Research, 34, (7), pp. 1264-1273
  • Daniel Cortes Correales, Stephen M Suydam, Karin Grävare Silbernagel, Thomas S Buchanan and Dawn M Elliott, 2015, "Continuous shear wave elastography: A new method to measure viscoelastic properties of tendons in vivo", Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 41, (6), pp. 1518–1529
  • Stephen M Suydam, Elizabeth M Soulas, Dawn M Elliott, Karin Gravare Silbernagel, Thomas S Buchanan and Daniel Cortes Correales, 2015, "Viscoelastic properties of healthy achilles tendon are independent of isometric plantar flexion strength and cross-sectional area", Journal of Orthopaedic Research, 33, (6), pp. 926–931
  • Daniel Cortes Correales and Dawn M. Elliott, 2014, "Accurate prediction of stress in fibers with distributed orientations using generalized high-order structure tensors", Mechanics of Materials, 75, pp. 73–83
  • Daniel Cortes Correales, Nathan T. Jacobs, John F. DeLucca and Dawn M. Elliott, 2014, "Elastic, permeability and swelling properties of human intervertebral disc tissues: A benchmark for tissue engineering", Journal of Biomechanics, 47, (9), pp. 2088–2094
  • Daniel Cortes Correales, Jeremy F. Magland, Alexander C. Wright and Dawn M. Elliott, 2014, "The shear modulus of the nucleus pulposus measured using magnetic resonance elastography: A potential biomarker for intervertebral disc degeneration", Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 72, (1), pp. 211–219
  • Nathan T. Jacobs, Daniel Cortes Correales, John M. Peloquin, Edward J. Vresilovic and Dawn M. Elliott, 2014, "Validation and application of an intervertebral disc finite element model utilizing independently constructed tissue-level constitutive formulations that are nonlinear, anisotropic, and time-dependent", Journal of Biomechanics, 47, (11), pp. 2540–2546
  • Nathan T Jacobs, Daniel Cortes Correales, Edward J Vresilovic and Dawn M Elliott, 2013, "Biaxial tension of fibrous tissue: Using finite element methods to address experimental challenges arising from boundary conditions and anisotropy", Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, 135, (2), pp. 021004
  • Daniel Cortes Correales, Woojin M. Han, Lachlan J. Smith and Dawn M. Elliott, 2013, "Mechanical properties of the extra-fibrillar matrix of human annulus fibrosus are location and age dependent", Journal of Orthopaedic Research, 31, (11), pp. 1725–1732
  • Spencer E. Szczesny, John M. Peloquin, Daniel Cortes Correales, Jennifer A. Kadlowec, Louis J. Soslowsky and Dawn M. Elliott, 2012, "Biaxial tensile testing and constitutive modeling of human supraspinatus tendon", Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, 134, (2), pp. 021004
  • Spencer P. Lake, Daniel Cortes Correales, Jennifer A. Kadlowec, Louis J. Soslowsky and Dawn M. Elliott, 2012, "Evaluation of affine fiber kinematics in human supraspinatus tendon using quantitative projection plot analysis", Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 11, (1-2), pp. 197–205
  • Daniel Cortes Correales and Dawn M. Elliott, 2012, "Extra-fibrillar matrix mechanics of annulus fibrosus in tension and compression", Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 11, (6), pp. 781–790
  • Lachlan J. Smith, Joseph A. Chiaro, Nandan L. Nerurkar, Daniel Cortes Correales, Sarena D. Horava, Nader M. Hebela, Robert L. Mauck, George R. Dodge and Dawn M. Elliott, 2011, "Nucleus pulposus cells synthesize a functional extracellular matrix and respond to inflammatory cytokine challenge following long term agarose culture", European Cells & Materials, 22, pp. 291-301
  • Daniel Cortes Correales and Osama M. Mukdadi, 2011, "Resonance frequencies of piezoelectric plates surrounded by solid and fluid half-spaces", Journal of Sound and Vibration, 330, (23), pp. 5558–5568
  • Ever J. Barbero and Daniel Cortes Correales, 2010, "A mechanistic model for transverse damage initiation, evolution, and stiffness reduction in laminated composites", Composites Part B: Engineering, 41, (2), pp. 124–132
  • Daniel Cortes Correales, Spencer P. Lake, Jennifer A. Kadlowec, Louis J. Soslowsky and Dawn M. Elliott, 2010, "Characterizing the mechanical contribution of fiber angular distribution in connective tissue: comparison of two modeling approaches", Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 9, (5), pp. 651–658
  • Daniel Cortes Correales, Subhendu K. Datta and Osama M. Mukdadi, 2010, "Elastic guided wave propagation in a periodic array of multi-layered piezoelectric plates with finite cross-sections", Ultrasonics, 50, (3), pp. 347–356
  • Daniel Cortes Correales and Ever J Barbero, 2010, "Stiffness reduction and fracture evolution of oblique matrix cracks in composite laminates", Annals of Solid and Structural Mechanics, 1, (1), pp. 29–40
  • Ahmed Mahmoud, Daniel Cortes Correales, Ayman Abaza, Hany Ammar, Mike Hazey, Peter Ngan, Richard Crout and Osama Mukdadi, 2008, "Noninvasive assessment of human jawbone using ultrasonic guided waves", Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, 55, (6), pp. 1316–1327
  • José Jaime García and Daniel Cortes Correales, 2007, "A biphasic viscohyperelastic fibril-reinforced model for articular cartilage: Formulation and comparison with experimental data", Journal of Biomechanics, 40, (8), pp. 1737–1744
  • José Jaime García and Daniel Cortes Correales, 2006, "A nonlinear biphasic viscohyperelastic model for articular cartilage", Journal of Biomechanics, 39, (16), pp. 2991–2998
  • Daniel Cortes Correales and J. J. García, 2005, "Analytic solution for the indentation of a transversely isotropic elastic layer bonded to a rigid foundation", Latin American Applied Research, 35, (1), pp. 167–173

Abstracts

  • Seyedali Sadeghi and Daniel Cortes Correales, 2019, "Harmonic Shear Wave Imaging: A new elastography method to evaluate mechanical properties of soft tissues", Summer Bioengineering, Biomechanics, Biotransport Conference, Tucson, AZ, June 21-24, 2017
  • Seyedali Sadeghi, Dov Bader and Daniel Cortes Correales, 2019, "Intramuscular pressure and shear modulus of lower leg muscle are correlated", Summer Bioengineering, Biomechanics, Biotransport Conference, Tucson, AZ, June 21-24, 2017
  • Lance T Williams, John Clark, Lukas M Neuberger, Gangchea Lee, Daniel Cortes Correales and Thomas Neuberger, 2018, "Design of a dual saddle coil setup for high resolution 1H/23Na magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of ex vivo rat tail intervertebral discs at 14.1T", Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Paris, France, June 16-21, 2018
  • Sayedali Sadeghi, Che-Yu Lin, Dov Bader and Daniel Cortes Correales, 2018, "Feasibility of shear wave elastography for assessing compartment syndrome: a pilot study on healthy volunteers", Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society, New Orleans, LA, March 10-13, 2018
  • Sayedali Sadeghi, Che-Yu Lin, Jaclyn M Sions, Gregory Billy, Jesse Bible and Daniel Cortes Correales, 2018, "A novel shear wave elastography protocol to quantify localized active contraction of lumbar multifidus muscles", Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society, New Orleans, LA, March 10-13, 2018
  • Sayedali Sadeghi, Che-Yu Lin, Dov Bader and Daniel Cortes Correales, 2018, "Evaluating healing of elbow ulnar collateral ligament injuries using ultrasound shear wave elastography: reliability, analysis and case study", Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society, New Orleans, LA, March 10-13, 2018
  • Sean Rothenberger, Corina S Drapaca, Thomas Neuberger and Daniel Cortes Correales, 2017, "Electro-mechancial actuator for high-frequency MR elastography of the spine", Summer Bioengineering, Biomechanics, Biotransport Conference, Tucson, AZ, June 21-24, 2017
  • Cassidy Newman, S Sadeghi and Daniel Cortes Correales, 2017, "Effect of running on mechanical properties of leg muscles", Summer Bioengineering, Biomechanics, Biotransport Conference, Tucson, AZ, June 21-24, 2017
  • Patrick Corrigan, Daniel Cortes Correales and Karin Silbernagel, 2017, "Immediate effects of photobiomodulation therapy on achilles tendon viscoelastic properties", International Symposium on Ligaments and Tendons-XVI, San Diego, CA, March 18, 2017
  • Patrick Corrigan, Laura Pontiggia, Karin G Silbernagel and Daniel Cortes Correales, 2017, "Barriers for remaining physical active in patients with achilles tendinopathy", Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society, San Diego, CA, March 19-22, 2017
  • Andrew Sprague, Courtney Cox, Daniel Cortes Correales and Karin Silbernagel, 2017, "Influence of knee flexion angle on patellar tendon structure and mechanical properties", Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society, San Diego, CA, March 19-22, 2017
  • Adrew Sprague, Laura Pontiggia, Daniel Cortes Correales and Karin G Silbernagel, 2017, "Achilles tendinopathy occurs across the age span and affects quality of life", American Physical Therapy Association Combined Sections Meeting, San Antonio, TX, February 15-18, 2017
  • Patrick Corrigan, Daniel Cortes Correales, Laura Pontiggia and Karin Silbernagel, 2017, "Patients with tendinopathy who remain physically active have lesser degree of symptoms and change in tendon structure", American Physical Therapy Association Combined Sections Meeting, San Antonio, TX, February 15-18, 2017
  • Jennifer A Zellers, Laura Pontiggia, Daniel Cortes Correales and Karin G Silbernagel, 2017, "Clinical measures relate to tendon mechanical properties following achilles tendon rupture", American Physical Therapy Association Combined Sections Meeting, San Antonio, TX, February 15-18, 2018
  • Courtney C Cox, Jennifer A Zellers, Karin G Silbernagel and Daniel Cortes Correales, 2016, "Viscoelastic properties of human patellar tendons measured using continuous shear wave elastography", Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering and Biotransport Conference, National Harbor, MD, June 29-July 2, 2016
  • Jennifer A Zellers, Patrick Corrigan, Daniel Cortes Correales and Karin G Silbernagel, 2016, "Changes in Achilles tendon viscoelastic properties in individuals with insertional tendinopathy", European Society of Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery & Arthroscopy, Barcelona, Spain, May 4-7, 2016
  • Jennifer A Zellers, Jacob Fish, Daniel Cortes Correales and Karin G Silbernagel, 2016, "Recovery of viscoelastic properties of Achilles tendon following rupture", International Symposium on Ligaments & Tendons XV, Orlando, FL, March 6, 2016
  • Jennifer A Zellers, Daniel P Corrigan, Daniel Cortes Correales and Karin G Silbernagel, 2016, "Changes in viscoelastic properties along the length of the achilles tendon", Meeting of the Orthopaedics Research Society, Orlando, FL, March 5-8, 2016
  • Jennifer A Zellers, Daniel Cortes Correales and Karin G Silbernagel, 2016, "Relationship between calf endurance and achilles tendon viscoelastic properties in the heel rise test", American Physical Therapy Association Combined Sections Meeting, Anaheim, CA, February 17-20, 2016
  • N. T. Jacobs, Daniel Cortes Correales, S. E. Szczesny, E. J. Vresilovic and D. M. Elliott, 2011, "Effect of boundary conditions on stress-strain uniformity in biaxial tension of annulus fibrosus", Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society, Long Beach, CA, January 13-16, 2011

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