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JOURNAL ARTICLE
RESEARCH SUPPORT, N.I.H., EXTRAMURAL
Mechanical properties of viscoelastic media by local frequency estimation of divergence-free wave fields.
Journal of Biomechanical Engineering 2013 Februrary
Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) is an imaging modality with which mechanical properties can be noninvasively measured in living tissue. Magnetic resonance elastography relies on the fact that the elastic shear modulus determines the phase velocity and, hence the wavelength, of shear waves which are visualized by motion-sensitive MR imaging. Local frequency estimation (LFE) has been used to extract the local wavenumber from displacement wave fields recorded by MRE. LFE -based inversion is attractive because it allows material parameters to be estimated without explicitly invoking the equations governing wave propagation, thus obviating the need to numerically compute the Laplacian. Nevertheless, studies using LFE have not explicitly addressed three important issues: (1) tissue viscoelasticity; (2) the effects of longitudinal waves and rigid body motion on estimates of shear modulus; and (3) mechanical anisotropy. In the current study we extend the LFE technique to (1) estimate the (complex) viscoelastic shear modulus in lossy media; (2) eliminate the effects of longitudinal waves and rigid body motion; and (3) determine two distinct shear moduli in anisotropic media. The extended LFE approach is demonstrated by analyzing experimental data from a previously-characterized, isotropic, viscoelastic, gelatin phantom and simulated data from a computer model of anisotropic (transversely isotropic) soft material.
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