Mechanical skin thinning-to-thickening transition observed in vivo through 2D high frequency elastography

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 43, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 2954-2962

  Mofid, Yassine ^a,b,c   Josse, Gwendal ^d   Gahagnon, Solène ^a,b,c   Delalleau, Alexandre ^d   Ossant, Frédéric ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^b CHRU de Tours   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d Centre d'Immunologie Pierre Fabre   (France)

Author keywords

High frequency elastography; Kinetics; Mechanical properties of human skin; Natural skin tension

Indexed keywords

COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; ELASTOGRAMS; ELASTOGRAPHY; EXTENSIOMETER; HIGH FREQUENCY; HUMAN DERMIS; IN-VIVO; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; MECHANICAL SKIN; MECHANICAL STRESS; NATURAL SKIN; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS; REAL TIME; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SKIN IMAGING; SONOGRAPHERS; STRAIN ESTIMATION; UNIAXIAL STRETCHING;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; STRESSES; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DERMIS; ELASTOGRAPHY; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VIVO STUDY; MECHANICAL STRESS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKIN EXAMINATION; SKIN STRUCTURE; SKIN TENSION; TWO DIMENSIONAL HIGH FREQUENCY ELASTOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BIOMECHANICS; DERMIS; ELASTICITY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKIN; SKIN PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENSILE STRENGTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78149283976     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2010.07.014     Document Type: Article

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