Bookcover of Ultrasonic elastography of porcine coronaries
Booktitle:
Ultrasonic elastography of porcine coronaries
High frequency ultrasonic elastography measurements
of the mechanical properties of porcine coronary
vessel walls
VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
(2009-06-14
)
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ISBN-13:
978-3-639-16286-8
ISBN-10:
3639162862
EAN:
9783639162868
Book language:
English
Blurb/Shorttext:
Coronary heart diseases are a significant cause of
death among both men and women in the industrialized
world. Thus finding ways to detect factors, which
cause coronary heart diseases, is a worthy challenge
for researchers. Ultrasound elastography system
(50MHz) for measuring mechanical properties of
arteries was developed as part of this thesis.
Ability to discriminate between various tissue types
was demonstrated using fresh and modified porcine
coronary arteries, which closely models the plaque
in human atherosclerosis. Elastographic measurements
agreed well with uniaxial mechanical testing over a
range of compression moduli.