Measurement of viscoelastic properties of tissue-mimicking material using longitudinal wave excitation

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1405-1418

  Baghani, Ali ^a   Eskandari, Hani ^a   Salcudean, Septimiu ^a   Rohling, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL RHEOMETRY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FINITE MEDIA; LONGITUDINAL MOTION; LONGITUDINAL WAVES; MODEL FITTING METHOD; TISSUE-MIMICKING MATERIALS; VISCO-ELASTIC PARAMETERS; VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES; WAVELENGTH MEASUREMENT;

VISCOELASTICITY;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL; VISCOELASTIC SUBSTANCE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ECHOGRAPHY; FLOW KINETICS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; VISCOSITY; YOUNG MODULUS;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; ELASTIC MODULUS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHEOLOGY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; VISCOELASTIC SUBSTANCES; VISCOSITY;

EID: 68249160649     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2009.1196     Document Type: Article

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