[HTML][HTML] Mechanical stiffness and anisotropy measured by MRE during brain development in the minipig

S Wang, CA Guertler, RJ Okamoto, CL Johnson… - NeuroImage, 2023 - Elsevier
The relationship between brain development and mechanical properties of brain tissue is
important, but remains incompletely understood, in part due to the challenges in measuring …

The White Matter Fiber Tract Deforms Most in the Perpendicular Direction During In Vivo Volunteer Impacts

Z Zhou, C Olsson, TC Gasser, X Li… - Journal of …, 2024 - liebertpub.com
White matter (WM) tract-related strains are increasingly used to quantify brain mechanical
responses, but their dynamics in live human brains during in vivo impact conditions remain …

Magnetic resonance elastography captures a transient benefit of exercise intervention on forebrain stiffness in a rat model of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders

KA Milbocker, LT Williams… - Alcohol: Clinical and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD), a group of prevalent conditions
resulting from prenatal alcohol exposure, affect the maturation of cerebral white matter as …

Imaging the subcellular viscoelastic properties of mouse oocytes

G Flé, E Van Houten… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
In recent years, cellular biomechanical properties have been investigated as an alternative
to morphological assessments for oocyte selection in reproductive science. Despite the high …

Individual Muscle Force Estimation in the Human Forearm Using Multi-Muscle MR Elastography (MM-MRE)

DR Smith, CA Helm, A Zonnino… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: To establish the sensitivity of magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) to active
muscle contraction in multiple muscles of the forearm. Methods: We combined MRE of …

In vivo estimation of anisotropic mechanical properties of the gastrocnemius during functional loading with MR elastography

DR Smith, DA Caban-Rivera, LT Williams… - Physics in Medicine …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. In vivo imaging assessments of skeletal muscle structure and function allow for
longitudinal quantification of tissue health. Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) non …

Transversely-isotropic brain in vivo MR elastography with anisotropic damping

D Jyoti, M McGarry, DA Caban-Rivera… - Journal of the …, 2023 - Elsevier
Measuring tissue parameters from increasingly sophisticated mechanical property models
may uncover new contrast mechanisms with clinical utility. Building on previous work on in …

Minimizing Measurement-Induced Errors in Viscoelastic MR Elastography

S Kurtz, B Wattrisse… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The inverse problem that underlies Magnetic Resonance Elastography (MRE) is sensitive to
the measurement data and the quality of the results of this tissue elasticity imaging process …

Measurement of biomechanical properties of transversely isotropic biological tissue using traveling wave expansion

S Ma, Z He, R Wang, A Zhang, Q Sun, J Liu, F Yan… - Medical Image …, 2025 - Elsevier
The anisotropic mechanical properties of fiber-embedded biological tissues are essential for
understanding their development, aging, disease progression, and response to therapy …

Comparison of deformation patterns excited in the human brain in vivo by harmonic and impulsive skull motion

JD Escarcega, AK Knutsen… - Journal of …, 2023 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Noninvasive measurements of brain deformation in human participants in vivo are needed
to develop models of brain biomechanics and understand traumatic brain injury (TBI) …