An objective in vivo measurement technique for assessing the material properties of soft
tissue would be a valuabe tool in diagnosing dermatological pathologies. In order to make …

We have developed a device entitled the 'Tissue Elastometer'(TE) for evaluating the Young's
modulus of soft tissues. Soft tissue specimens are compressed between the object plate of …

The biomechanical characteristics of human tissues have a close relation with individual
pathologies. The softness or elasticity of tissues is an important index of normal/abnormal …

A novel instrument has been devised for the in vivo examination of the dynamic
biomechanical properties of skin. These properties include stiffness and viscoelasticity. 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 …

The product of 20 years of research, this book covers topics in soft tissue elasticity in vivo,
from measurement techniques to clinical applications. It provides, for the first time, a single …

Background: New advances in bioengineering have provided commercially available
devices for measuring the mechanical properties of skin in vivo. Reproducibility of data and …

Purpose–The paper aims to discuss the design, fabrication, communication, testing, and
simulation of a new tactile probe called Elastirob used to measure the modulus of elasticity …

Background/aims: Various attempts have been made to measure mechanical properties of
the skin quantitatively and noninvasively. However, no attempt has been made to measure a …

Simple but objective measurement of soft tissue consistency would be advantageous in the
assessment of many neurological, lymphostatic and venous disorders. The aim of the …