Tissue elasticity estimation with optical coherence elastography: Toward mechanical characterization of in vivo soft tissue

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1631-1639

  Khalil, Ahmad S ^a   Chan, Raymond C ^b   Chau, Alexandra H ^a,b   Bouma, Brett E ^b   Mofrad, Mohammad R Kaazempur ^c  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c University of California at Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

Elasticity estimation; FEM; Optical coherence tomography; Regularization; Soft tissue

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY ESTIMATION; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; REGULARIZATION; SOFT TISSUE;

BIOMECHANICS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COHERENT LIGHT; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ULTRASONICS;

TISSUE;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; ARTERIOLOSCLEROSIS; ARTERY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RADIOGRAPHY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TOMOGRAPHY;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANIMALS; ARTERIES; ARTERIOLOSCLEROSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 29144505983     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-005-6766-3     Document Type: Article

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