Quantitative assessment of the mechanical properties of soft tissues in vivo is required in
both clinical and research fields. This paper introduces a hand-held indentation system that …

An ultrasound indentation system with a pen-size hand-held probe was used to obtain the
indentation responses of forearm soft tissues. Three normal forearms were each tested with …

Mechanical characterisation of soft biological tissues using standard compression or tensile
testing presents a significant challenge due to specimen geometrical irregularities …

An ultrasound indentation system with a pen-size hand-held probe was developed and used
to obtain the effective Young's moduli of forearm and lower limb soft tissues in 12 subjects …

We have designed, built, and tested a portable indentor device that allows us to determine
force/displacement (F/D) measurements on soft tissue in a clinical or research setting. The …

A hand held stiffness meter can be used to measure indentation stiffness of human soft
tissues, sensitively altered, eg, by pathological tissue swelling. Under indentation load, the …

Quantitative assessment of the biomechanical properties of limb soft tissues has become
more important during the last decade because of the introduction of computer-aided design …

Indentation is a commonly used approach to measure the mechanical properties of soft
tissues, such as articular cartilage and limb tissues. The Young's modulus of tissue can be …

Background Indentation techniques haves been applied to measure stiffness of human soft
tissues. Tissue properties and geometry of the indentation instrument control the measured …

In this paper, spherical indentation testing is studied to evaluate the viscoelasticity of soft
materials like human skin. Here, the Hertzian contact theory is functionally extended to …