The thesis addresses the field of non-invasive assessment of venous pressure. Traditional procedures are based on visual estimation of the height of the jugular vein meniscus and require a medically trained person, while often being impractical and unreliable. A new method is proposed, based on ultrasound measurements of the right side of the neck, which enables numerical estimation of venous pressure using the measured displacements and forces applied by the ultrasound probe. The work is structured in such a way that we first reviewed the anatomy of the neck, focusing on venous and arterial structures as well as the surrounding muscle and connective tissue. Based on data from the literature, initial mechanical parameters of the tissues were defined and then iteratively adjusted to align the numerical simulation with the experimental measurements. For validation of the approach, a gelatin-based phantom model was created, allowing comparison of the simulation results with actual displacements under known loads. The results show that, with appropriately defined input data and a sufficiently accurate numerical model, it is possible to estimate venous pressure based on ultrasound measurements, confirming the applicability of the proposed method.
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