Viscoelastic characterization of soft tissue from dynamic finite element models

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 6569-6590

  Eskandari, Hani ^a   Salcudean, Septimiu E ^a   Rohling, Robert ^a   Ohayon, Jacques ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b LABORATOIRE TIMC IMAG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; COMPOSITE BEAMS AND GIRDERS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VISCOELASTICITY; VISCOSITY;

DEFORMATION MODELS; DYNAMIC DATUMS; DYNAMIC FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; HARMONIC EXCITATIONS; ITERATIVE SOLUTIONS; LUMPED MASSES; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; RHEOLOGICAL MODELS; RHEOMETRY; SOFT TISSUES; VISCOELASTIC CHARACTERIZATIONS; VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES; VISCOSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; VISCOSITY PARAMETERS;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

GELATIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FLOW KINETICS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOFT TISSUE; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; VISCOELASTICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; ELASTICITY; GELATIN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 58149240098     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/22/018     Document Type: Article

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