Measurement of Viscoelastic Properties of Polyacrylamide-Based Tissue-Mimicking Phantoms for Ultrasound Elastography Applications
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...viscoelastic phantoms [38], [44], and may allow obtaining a...
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...As opposed to a procedure involving human intervention, there are several techniques that use phase-sensitive imaging modalities such as ultrasound [11]–[13] and magnetic resonance imaging [14], [15] to image the mechanical properties of soft tissues....
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...The basis for the development of these methods is that disease processes alter tissue elastic properties [1], [16]....
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...Data available on the elastic properties of the tissues are limited to blood vessels, skeletal muscle, heart muscle, bone, and cartilage [1], [2]....
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...cross-sectional area and measuring the force response [1], [7],...
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...Clinical ultrasound elastography imaging of breast [12], [20] and thyroid [13], [21] has shown promising results in differentiating benign versus malignant lesions on the basis of elastographic contrast....
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...The basis for the development of these methods is that disease processes alter tissue elastic properties [1], [16]....
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...Ultrasound elastography is a method to identify pathological changes by measuring elastic properties of tissues [11], [16] using ultrasound....
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"Measurement of Viscoelastic Propert..." refers background in this paper
...As opposed to a procedure involving human intervention, there are several techniques that use phase-sensitive imaging modalities such as ultrasound [11]–[13] and magnetic resonance imaging [14], [15] to image the mechanical properties of soft tissues....
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...Clinical ultrasound elastography imaging of breast [12], [20] and thyroid [13], [21] has shown promising results in differentiating benign versus malignant lesions on the basis of elastographic contrast....
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