Title :
Testing viscoelastic properties of biological soft tissue
Author :
Ostrander, Lee E. ; Lee, Bok Y.
Author_Institution :
Biomed. Eng. Dept., Rensselaer Polytech. Inst., Troy, NY, USA
fDate :
Oct. 29 1992-Nov. 1 1992
Abstract :
The goal in this study is to assess instrumentation and methods for measuring the pressure and deformation of soft body tissues. The design of an instrument and the form of the resulting data are discussed in this paper. Applications include the evaluation of edema, the compartment syndrome, monitoring of peripheral vascular disease and the evaluation of pressures associated with use of a prosthesis with the residual limb following amputation.
Keywords :
biological tissues; biomechanics; biomedical equipment; biomedical measurement; blood; deformation; diseases; patient monitoring; pressure measurement; prosthetics; viscoelasticity; amputation; biological soft tissue; compartment syndrome; deformation; edema; instrument design; peripheral vascular disease monitoring; pressure measurement; prosthesis; viscoelastic properties; Biological tissues; Biomedical monitoring; Monitoring; Prosthetics; Read only memory;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1992 14th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Paris
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0785-2
Electronic_ISBN :
0-7803-0816-6
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1992.5760879
