Exploring all-electrical soft-tissue stiffness measurement using piezoelectric unimorph cantilevers

Proceedings of the IEEE Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference, NEBEC

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 146-147

  Szewczyk, Steven T ^a   Shih, Wei Heng ^a   Shih, Wan Y ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cantilever; Elasticity; Piezoelectric; Tissue

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; STIFFNESS; TISSUE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOSENSORS; BONDING; CAPACITIVE SENSORS; DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENT; HISTOLOGY; NANOCANTILEVERS; PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; STRAIN MEASUREMENT;

PIEZOELECTRIC CANTILEVERS; BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; CLINICAL APPLICATION; DISEASED TISSUES; FORCE DEFORMATION; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; PIEZOELECTRIC UNIMORPH; STAND-ALONE INSTRUMENTS;

PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS; TISSUE;

EID: 84874700576     PISSN: 1071121X     EISSN: 21607001     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (14)

1. Li, X., Shih, W.Y., Aksay, I., and Shih, W. Electromechanical Behavior of PZT-Brass Unimorphs. Journal of the American Ceramics Society 82 [7] (1999) 1733-40.
2. Shih, W.Y., Li, X., Gu, H., Shih, W., and Aksay, I. Simultaneous liquid viscosity and density determination with piezoelectric unimorph cantilevers. Journal of Applied Physics 89 [2] (2001) 1497-1505.
3. Yi, W., Shih, W.Y., and Shih, W. Effect of length, width, and mode on the mass detection sensitivity of piezoelectric unimorph cantilevers. Journal of Applied Physics 91 [3] (2002) 1680-1686.
4. Lee, C., Toshihiro, I., and Suga, T. Self-excited piezoelectric PZT microcantilevers for dynamic SFM - with inherent sensing and actuating capabilities. Sensors and Actuators A72 (1999) 179-188.
5. Miyahara, Y., Deschler, M., Fujii, T., Watanabe, S., Bleuler, H. Non-contact atomic force microscope with a PZT cantilever used for deflection sensing, direct oscillation and feedback actuation. Applied Surface Science 188 (2002) 450-455.
6. VanLandingham, M. R., McKnight, S. H., Palmese, G. R., Eduljee, R. F., Gillespie, J. W. Jr., and McCullough, R. L. Relating elastic modulus to indentation response using atomic force microscopy. Journal of Material Science Letters 16 (1997) 117-119.
7. Vinckier, A. and Semenza, G. Measuring elasticity of biological materials by atomic force microscopy. FEBS Letters 430 (1998) 12-16.
8. Kulkarni, A. and Bhushan, B. Nanoscale mechanical property measurements using modified atomic force microscopy. Thin Solid Films 290-291 (1996) 206-210.
9. Serre, C., Perez-Rodriguez, A., Morante, J. R., Gorostiza, P., and Esteve, J. Determination of micromechanical properties of thin films by beam bending measurements with an atomic force microscope. Sensors and Actuators 74 (1999) 134-138.
10. Prasad, M., Kopycinska, M., Rabe, U., and Arnold, W. Measurement of Young's modulus of clay minerals using atomic force acoustic microscopy. Geophysical Research Letters 29 [0] (2002)
11. Kruse, S. A., Smith, J. A., Lawrence, A. J., Dresner, M. A., Manduca, A., Greenleaf, J. F., and Ehman, R. L. Tissue characterization using magnetic resonance elastography: preliminary results. Phys. Med. Biol. 45 (2000) 1579-1590.
12. Wilson, L. S., Robinson, D. E., and Dadd, M. J. Elastography - the movement begins. Phys. Med. Biol. 45 (2000) 1409-1421.
13. Wellman, P. S., Howe, R. D., Dalton, E., and Kern, K. A. Breast tissue stiffness in compression is correlated to histological diagnosis. Submitted to Journal of Biomechanics(1999).
14. Markidou, A., Shih, W. Y., and Shih, W.-H. Measurement of Elasticity of Soft Materials Using PZT/Stainless Cantilevers, unpublished.