High-frequency viscoelastic shear properties of vocal fold tissues: Implications for vocal fold tissue engineering

Tissue Engineering - Part A

Volumn 18, Issue 19-20, 2012, Pages 2008-2019

  Teller, Sean S ^a   Farran, Alexandra J E ^b   Xiao, Longxi ^b   Jiao, Tong ^a   Duncan, Randall L ^b   Clifton, Rodney J ^a   Jia, Xinqiao ^b  

^a Brown University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; ELASTIC MODULI; EXPERIMENTS; HISTOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; SPEECH; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; VISCOELASTICITY;

ADULT PATIENTS; AT RESONANCE; BIOMECHANICAL FUNCTIONS; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; FREQUENCY RANGES; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; LAMINA PROPRIA; LAYERED STRUCTURES; LINEAR VISCOELASTIC; LOSS TANGENT; MATERIAL PROPERTY; REPLACEMENT MATERIALS; RESONANCE PHENOMENA; SAMPLE SIZES; SHEAR PROPERTIES; SPECIMEN TESTS; STRUCTURAL CHANGE; VISCOELASTIC MODULI; VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES; VOCAL FOLDS;

BIOMECHANICS;

SUIDAE; SUS;

ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ELASTICITY; HUMAN; MATERIALS TESTING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; SWINE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TISSUE ENGINEERING; VISCOSITY; VOCAL CORD;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SWINE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; VISCOSITY; VOCAL CORDS;

EID: 84867033417     PISSN: 19373341     EISSN: 1937335X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2012.0023     Document Type: Article

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