Measurement of visco-elastic properties of breast-tissue mimicking materials using diffusing wave spectroscopy

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Devi, C Usha ^a   Chandran, R Sreekumari Bharat ^a   Vasu, R Mohan ^a   Sood, Ajay K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Breast tissue; Diffusing wave spectroscopy; PVA phantom; Visco elastic modulus

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ELASTICITY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPECTROSCOPY; VISCOSITY;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VISCOSITY;

AUTOCORRELATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; POLYVINYL ALCOHOLS; TUMORS; VISCOELASTICITY;

BREAST TISSUE; DIFFUSING WAVE SPECTROSCOPY; DYNAMIC MECHANICAL ANALYZER; PHANTOM MESHING;

ONCOLOGY;

EID: 34547908446     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2743081     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. B. R. Dasgupta, S. Y. Tee, J. C. Crocker, B. J. Frisken, and D. A. Weitz, "Microrheology of polyethelene oxide using diffusing wave spectroscopy and single scattering," Phys. Rev. E 65, 051505 (2002).
2. B. R. Dasgupta and D. A. Weitz, "Microrheology of cross linked polyacrylamide networks," Phys. Rev. E 71, 021504 (2005).
3. J. F. Greenleaf, M. Fatemi, and M. F. Insana, "Selected methods for imaging elastic properties of biological tissues," Annu. Rev. Biomed. Eng. 5,57 (2003).
4. T. Varghese and T. J. Hall, "Visco-elastic characterization of in vitro canine tissue," Phys. Med. Biol. 49, 4207 (2004).
5. H. M. Wyss, S. Romer, F. Scheffold, P. Schurtenberger, and L. J. Gauckle, "Diffusing wave spectroscopy of concentrated Alumina suspensions during gelation," J. Colloid Interface Sci. 240,89 (2001).
6. A. Palmer, T. G. Mason, J. Xu, S. C. Kuo, and D. Wirtz, "Diffusing wave spectroscopy microrheology of actin filament networks," Bio-phys. J. 76, 1063 (1999).
7. T. G. Mason, H. Gang, and D. A. Weitz, "Diffusing-wave spectros-copy measurements of visco-elasticity of complex fluids," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 14(1), 139 (1997).
8. L. F. Rojas, R. Vavrin, C. Urban, J. Kohlbrecher, A. Stradner, F. Scheffold, and P. Schurtenberger, "Particle dynamics in concentrated colloidal suspensions," Faraday Discuss. 123, 385 (2003).
9. M. Alexander and D. G. Dalgleish, "Application of transmission diffusing wave spectroscopy to the study of gelation of milk by acidification and rennet," Colloids Surf., B 38,83 (2004).
10. M. J. Schmitt, "OCT elastography: Imaging microscopic deformation and strain of tissue," Opt. Express 3, 119-211 (1999).
11. G. Maret, "Diffusing wave spectroscopy," Curr. Opin. Colloid Interface Sci. 2, 251 (1997).
12. D. A. Weitz and D. J. Pine, "Diffusing wave spectroscopy," in Dynamic Light Scattering: The Method and Some Applications,W. Brown, Ed., Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK (1993).
13. C. MacKintosh and C. F. Schmidt, "Microrheology," Curr. Opin. Colloid Interface Sci. 4, 300 (1999).
14. Y. C. Fung, "Bio-viscoelastic solids," Chap. 7 in Biomechanics: Mechanical Properties of Living Tissues, p. 196, Springer Verlag, New York (1981).
15. N. Menon and D. J. Durian, "Diffusing wave spectroscopy of dynamics in a three dimensional granular flow," Science 275, 1920 (1997).
16. C. Usha Devi, R. M. Vasu, and A. K. Sood, "Design, fabrication and characterization of tissue-equivalent phantom for optical elastography," J. Biomed. Opt. 10(4), 044020(1)(2005).
17. G. Paradossi, F. Cavalieri, E. Chiessi, and M. T. F. Telling, "Supercooled water in PVA matrixes: I. An incoherent quasi-elastic neutron scattering (QENS) Study," J. Phys. Chem. 107, 8363-8371 (2003).
18. M. Doi and S. F. Edwards, Theory ofPolymer Dynamics, Clarendon Press, Oxford, UK (1986).
19. F. Scheffold, S. E. Skipetrov, S. Romer, and P. Schurtenberger, "Diffusing wave spectroscopy of nonergodic media," Phys. Rev. E 63,061404 (2001).
20. M. F. Insana and T. J. Hall "Characterising the microstructure in the random media using ultrasound," Phys. Med. Biol. 35(10), 1373 (1990).
21. T. A. Bigelow, and W. D. O'Brien, Jr., "Scatterer size estimation in pulse-echo ultrasound using focused sources: Theoretical approximation and simulation analysis," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 116,578(2004).
22. D. A. Boas, L. E. Campbell, and A. G. Yodh, "Scattering and imaging with diffusing temporal field correlations," Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 1855 (1995).