The feasibility of estimating and imaging the mechanical behavior of poroelastic materials using axial strain elastography

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3241-3259

  Righetti, Raffaella ^a   Righetti, Mariapaola ^b   Ophir, Jonathan ^a   Krouskop, Thomas A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; POISSON RATIO; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AXIAL STRAIN ELASTOGRAPHY; CONSTANT COMPRESSION FORCE; PERMEABILITY PROPERTIES; POROELASTIC MATERIALS;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

GELATIN;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING; MATERIALS; PERMEABILITY; PHANTOM; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GELATIN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PERMEABILITY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SOY FOODS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENSILE STRENGTH; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34248993272     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/11/020     Document Type: Article

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