Elastic properties of soft tissue-mimicking phantoms assessed by combined use of laser ultrasonics and low coherence interferometry

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 10153-10163

  Li, Chunhui ^a,b   Huang, Zhihong ^b   Wang, Ruikang K ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE DEVICES; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ALGAE; BIOMECHANICS; DISPERSION (WAVES); ELASTICITY; INTERFEROMETRY; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; PHASE VELOCITY; POLYSACCHARIDES; RATING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS; WAVE INTERFERENCE;

ELASTIC PROPERTIES; FOCUSED LASER; LASER INDUCED; LASER ULTRASONICS; LOW COHERENCE INTERFEROMETERS; LOW COHERENCE INTERFEROMETRY; SOFT BIOLOGICAL TISSUE; SOFT MATERIAL; SOFT TISSUE; SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVES; TIME DOMAIN; TISSUE MIMICKING PHANTOM; TWO LAYERS; VELOCITY DISPERSION;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

AGAR;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASOUND;

ACOUSTICS; AGAR; ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INTERFEROMETRY; LASERS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SURFACE PROPERTIES; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 79957600000     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.010153     Document Type: Article

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