An ultrasound indentation system for biomechanical properties assessment of soft tissues in-vivo

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 912-918

  Zheng, Yong Ping ^a,b   Mak, Arthur F T ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIVE LOAD CELLS; QUASILINEAR VISCOELASTIC MODEL; ULTRASOUND INDENTATION SYSTEMS;

BIOMECHANICS; CURVE FITTING; MATERIALS TESTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; VISCOELASTICITY;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AMPUTATION STUMP; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BELOW KNEE AMPUTATION; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MUSCLE TISSUE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; SOFT TISSUE; SWINE; TIBIA; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; VISCOELASTICITY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKIN; SOFTWARE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SWINE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0030248364     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.532125     Document Type: Article

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