Ultrasound elastography to determine the layered mechanical properties of articular cartilage and the importance of such structural characteristics under load

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 4262-4265

  McCredie, Alexandra J ^a   Stride, Eleanor ^a   Saffari, Nader ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; CARTILAGE; ELASTICITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

ARTICULAR CARTILAGES; ENGINEERED TISSUES; FIBRIL ARCHITECTURE; LOCAL ELASTIC PROPERTIES; MECHANICAL CHARACTERISATION; QUASI-STATIC DISPLACEMENT; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; ULTRASOUND ELASTOGRAPHY;

TISSUE;

EID: 77950990745     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5334589     Document Type: Conference Paper

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