An ultrasound indentation system for biomechanical assessment of soft tissues in vivo was
developed. The pen-size, hand-held probe was composed of an ultrasound transducer and …

Technologies for soft tissue analysis are advancing at a rapid place. For instance,
elastography, which provides soft tissue strain images, is starting to be tried in clinical …

This study is aimed to develop a novel noncontact ultrasonic indentation system for
measuring quantitative mechanical properties of soft tissues, which are increasingly …

We have earlier developed a handheld ultrasound indentation instrument for the diagnosis
of articular cartilage degeneration. In ultrasound indentation, cartilage is compressed with …

Numerous techniques exist to measure the mechanical properties, of soft tissues in vivo,
such as mechanical stretching, indentation or shearing, as well as elastographic methods …

A change in mechanical properties of articular cartilage would be considered one of the
most reliable signs of cartilage degeneration. While an indentation method has the potential …

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 …

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 …

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 …

We evaluated whether the use of cartilage thickness measurement would improve the ability
of the arthroscopic indentation technique to estimate the intrinsic stiffness of articular …