Background The mechanical properties of the breast skin play an important role in
explaining the changes associated with radiotherapy, tissue expansion, and breast …

Background/purpose The skin overlying a woman's breast acts as an anatomical support
structure to the breast. Although aging is known to affect the thickness and elasticity of …

Background/Purpose: Quantitative measurement of skin biomechanical properties has been
used effectively in the investigation of physiological changes in tissue structure and function …

Background Quantification of the magnitude of skin strain in different regions of the breast
may help to estimate possible gravity-induced damage whilst also being able to inform the …

Abstract Characterization of material properties of human skin is required to develop a
physics-based biomechanical model that can predict deformation of female breast after …

Purpose: Late radiation-induced skin effects were studied in a multicenter project using our
new sensitive noninvasive viscoelasticity skin analyzer (VESA). Methods and Materials: Skin …

Background: An objective in vivo measurement of viscoelastic skin properties is difficult.
Consequently, the clinician's ability to evaluate the effectiveness of therapies that may affect …

Background This paper addresses the question of the in vivo measurement of breast tissue
stiffness, which has been poorly adressed until now, except for elastography imaging which …

Stereophotographic imaging and digital image correlation are used to determine the
variation of breast skin deformation as the subject orientation is altered from supine to …

Background: Breast shape is largely determined by the volume of tissue and surface area of
the skin envelope. Values for breast surface area have never been published in the …