Digital Image-based Elasto-Tomography: First experiments in surface based mechanical property estimation of gelatine phantoms

JSME International Journal, Series C: Mechanical Systems, Machine Elements and Manufacturing

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 562-569

  Peters, Ashton ^a   Wortmann, Stefan ^a   Elliott, Rodney ^a   Staiger, Mark ^a   Chase, James Geoffrey ^a   Van Houten, Elijah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Computational mechanics; Elasticity; Finite element method; Inverse problem

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMAGE PROCESSING; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MOTION ESTIMATION; STIFFNESS; TISSUE;

BREAST; COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS; DIGITAL IMAGE-BASED ELASTO-TOMOGRAPHY (DIET); GELATINE PHANTOMS;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMAGE PROCESSING; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MOTION ESTIMATION; STIFFNESS; TISSUE;

EID: 33745201838     PISSN: 13447653     EISSN: 1347538X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1299/jsmec.48.562     Document Type: Article

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