A novel MRI compatible soft tissue indentor and fibre Bragg grating force sensor

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 486-499

  Moerman, Kevin M ^a,b   Sprengers, Andre M J ^b   Nederveen, Aart J ^b   Simms, Ciaran K ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Actuator; Biomechanics; Fibre Bragg Grating; Force sensor; MRI; MRI compatible; Soft tissue

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS AND SENSORS; FORCE SENSOR; MEAN AND STANDARD DEVIATIONS; MECHANICAL EXCITATIONS; MRI COMPATIBLE; SOFT TISSUE; SOFT TISSUE DEFORMATION; TISSUE DEFORMATIONS;

ACTUATORS; BIOMECHANICS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; SENSORS; SILICONES; STATISTICS; TISSUE;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

SILICONE;

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER SYSTEM; ELECTRONIC SENSOR; ERROR; FEMALE; FIBRE BRAGG GRATING FORCE SENSOR; FORCE; GENERAL DEVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATERIALS TESTING; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOFT TISSUE INDENTOR; VOLUNTEER; WEIGHT BEARING;

ANISOTROPY; BIOMECHANICS; ELASTICITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL PROCESSES; MOTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL PROCESSES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SILICONES;

EID: 84876131992     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: 18734030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2012.06.014     Document Type: Article

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