Biomechanical properties of in vivo human skin from dynamic optical coherence elastography

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 953-959

  Liang, Xing ^a   Boppart, Stephen A ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomechanical properties; Elastography; Optical coherence tomography (OCT); Skin

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; COHERENT LIGHT; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; SURFACE WAVES; TOMOGRAPHY; WATER WAVES;

BIOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES; DRIVING FREQUENCIES; ELASTOGRAPHY; HUMAN SKIN; IN-VIVO; IN-VIVO HUMAN SKIN; MECHANICAL SURFACE; MICROMETER-SCALE; NON-INVASIVE IMAGING; OPTICAL COHERENCE ELASTOGRAPHY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT); OPTICAL MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; REALTIME PROCESSING; SKIN HYDRATION;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; DYNAMIC OPTICAL COHERENCE ELASTOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKIN; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SURFACE PROPERTY; ALGORITHM; ARM; FUNCTIONS OF THE SKIN AND ITS APPENDAGES; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROCEDURES; YOUNG MODULUS;

ALGORITHMS; ARM; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MALE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SKIN PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 77950289564     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2009.2033464     Document Type: Article

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