Non-invasive assessment of elastic modulus of arterial constructs during cell culture using ultrasound elasticity imaging

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2103-2115

  Dutta, Debaditya ^a   Lee, Kee Won ^b   Allen, Robert A ^b   Wang, Yadong ^b,c   Brigham, John C ^b   Kim, Kang ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Arterial construct; Inverse problem; Non invasive assessment; Tissue engineering; Ultrasound elasticity imaging; Young's modulus

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MECHANICAL TESTING; MEDICAL IMAGING; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; TISSUE ENGINEERING; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

ARTERIAL CONSTRUCT; BIODEGRADABLE ELASTOMERS; NON-INVASIVE ASSESSMENTS; RADIOFREQUENCY SIGNALS; ULTRASOUND ELASTICITY IMAGING; ULTRASOUND ELASTOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND MEASUREMENT; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

COLLAGEN FIBRIL; ELASTOMER; MOLECULAR SCAFFOLD;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL ORGAN; BIODEGRADABILITY; BIOMECHANICS; CELL CULTURE; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBROBLAST; HISTOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW GENERATOR; PULSE PRESSURE; RADIOFREQUENCY; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; TISSUE ENGINEERING; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; YOUNG MODULUS;

ARTERIAL CONSTRUCT; INVERSE PROBLEM; NON-INVASIVE ASSESSMENT; TISSUE ENGINEERING; ULTRASOUND ELASTICITY IMAGING; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

ANIMALS; ARTERIES; CELLS, CULTURED; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FIBROBLASTS; MALE; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; PAPIO; TENSILE STRENGTH; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 84884533973     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2013.04.023     Document Type: Article

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