An inverse problem solution for measuring the elastic modulus of intact ex vivo breast tissue tumours

• Published in: Physics in medicine & biology Vol. 52; no. 5; pp. 1247 - 1260
• Main Authors: Samani, Abbas, Plewes, Donald
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England IOP Publishing 07.03.2007
• Subjects: Algorithms; Breast Neoplasms - diagnosis; Breast Neoplasms - physiopathology; Computer Simulation; Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted - methods; Elasticity; Female; Hardness; Hardness Tests - instrumentation; Hardness Tests - methods; Humans; Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted - methods; Middle Aged; Models, Biological; Reproducibility of Results; Sensitivity and Specificity; Stress, Mechanical

Soft tissue elasticity has been a subject of interest in biomedical applications as an aid to medical diagnosis since the dawn of medicine. More recently, this has led to the concept of elastography with the aim of imaging the spatial distribution of tissue elasticity. Interpreting elastography imag...