Multi-layer phase analysis: Quantifying the elastic properties of soft tissues and live cells with ultra-high-frequency scanning acoustic microscopy

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 610-620

  Zhao, Xuegen ^a   Akhtar, Riaz ^a,b   Nijenhuis, Nadja ^a   Wilkinson, Steven J ^a   Murphy, Lilli ^a   Ballestrem, Christoph ^a   Sherratt, Michael J ^c   Watson, Rachel E B ^c   Derby, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMAGES; CELL PARAMETER; CULTURED CELL; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; FIBROBLAST CELLS; FOCAL POINTS; GLASS SLIDES; INTERNAL REFLECTIONS; LATERAL RESOLUTION; LIVE CELL; OFFLINE; PHASE ANALYSIS; PHASE INFORMATION; SCANNING ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY; SCANNING PARAMETERS; SIGNAL NOISE; SOFT BIOLOGICAL TISSUE; SOFT TISSUE; SOUND SPEED; SUBSTRATE REMOVED; SUBSTRATE SURFACE; TISSUE SECTIONS; ULTRA-HIGH-FREQUENCY; WAVE FREQUENCIES;

ACOUSTIC IMAGING; ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPES; ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ACOUSTICS; CELL CULTURE; CELLS; ELASTICITY; SCANNING;

TISSUE;

ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN 3T3; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FIBROBLAST; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SKIN;

ANIMALS; ELASTICITY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FIBROBLASTS; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ACOUSTIC; NIH 3T3 CELLS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SKIN;

EID: 84860497296     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2012.2240     Document Type: Article

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