Determining elastic properties of skin by measuring surface waves from an impulse mechanical stimulus using phase-sensitive optical coherence tomography

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 9, Issue 70, 2012, Pages 831-841

  Li, Chunhui ^a,b   Guan, Gying ^a,b   Reif, Roberto ^a   Huang, Zhihong ^b   Wang, Ruikang K ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Phase sensitive measurement; Phase sensitive optical coherence tomography PhS OCT; Phase velocity dispersion; Skin mechanical properties; Surface waves

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; BIOMECHANICS; DIAGNOSIS; ELASTICITY; EXPERIMENTS; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; POLYSACCHARIDES; TISSUE;

BIOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES; CLINICAL SITUATIONS; DISEASE DIAGNOSIS; DISPERSION CURVES; DOUBLE LAYERS; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; IN-VIVO; IN-VIVO HUMAN SKIN; INNOVATIVE METHOD; MECHANICAL IMPULSE; MECHANICAL STIMULUS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHASE-SENSITIVE; PHASE-SENSITIVE MEASUREMENTS; SPECTRAL-DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY;

SURFACE WAVES;

AGAR;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; DISPERSION; ELASTICITY; FOREARM; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; NERVE CONDUCTION; PHANTOM; SKIN; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; STIMULUS; VELOCITY;

EID: 84857349240     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2011.0583     Document Type: Article

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