Determining the mechanical properties of soft biological tissues can be of great importance. For example, the microstructures of many soft tissues, such as those of the human Achilles tendon, have been identified as typical anisotropic materials. This paper proposes an inverse approach that uses guided wave elastography to determine the anisotropic elastic and hyperelastic parameters of thin-walled transversely isotropic biological soft tissues. This approach was developed from the theoretical solutions for the dispersion relations of guided waves, which were derived based on a constitutive model suitable for describing the deformation behavior of such tissues. The properties of these solutions were investigated; in particular, sensitivity to data errors was addressed by introducing the concept of the condition number. To further validate the proposed inverse approach, the guided wave elastography of thin-walled transversely isotropic soft tissues was investigated using numerical experiments. The results indicated that the four constitutive parameters (other than the tensile modulus along the direction of the fibers, ) could be determined with a good level of accuracy using this method.
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Assessing the mechanical properties of anisotropic soft tissues using guided wave elastography: Inverse method and numerical experiments
Guo-Yang Li;
Guo-Yang Li
Institute of Biomechanics and Medical Engineering, AML, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University
, Beijing 100084, People's Republic of China
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Yanping Cao
Yanping Cao
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Institute of Biomechanics and Medical Engineering, AML, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University
, Beijing 100084, People's Republic of China
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J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 142, 1526–1536 (2017)
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Received:
May 20 2017
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August 28 2017
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Guo-Yang Li, Yanping Cao; Assessing the mechanical properties of anisotropic soft tissues using guided wave elastography: Inverse method and numerical experiments. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1 September 2017; 142 (3): 1526–1536. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5002685
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