Non-invasive and Non-destructive Characterization of Tissue Engineered Constructs Using Ultrasound Imaging Technologies: A Review

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 621-635

  Kim, Kang ^a,b,c   Wagner, William R ^a,b,c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

Multi modality; Nondestructive; Noninvasive; Regeneration; Tissue scaffolds; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIALS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE REGENERATION; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

MULTI MODALITY; NON DESTRUCTIVE; NONINVASIVE; REGENERATION; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE IMAGING; BACKSCATTERING ULTRASOUND IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FOUR DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGING; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NON DESTRUCTIVE IMAGING; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; REVIEW; TENSILE STRENGTH; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE GROWTH; TISSUE SCAFFOLD; TWO DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND ELASTICITY IMAGING; ULTRASOUND SHEAR WAVE ELASTICITY IMAGING; YOUNG MODULUS; ANIMAL; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84961130520     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-015-1495-0     Document Type: Review

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