Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) is a rapidly developing technology for
quantitatively assessing the mechanical properties of tissue. The technology can be …

From times immemorial manual palpation served as a source of information on the state of
soft tissues and allowed detection of various diseases accompanied by changes in tissue …

All participants for image samplings provided written informed consent. Conventional B-
mode ultrasonography (US) has been widely utilized for musculoskeletal problems as a first …

Background The computational methods provide condition for investigation related to the
process of drug delivery, such as convection and diffusion of drug in extracellular matrices …

Many recent papers present different ways to show the volume of a tumor from a few two-
dimensional images. The three-dimensional fundamental shape of tumors is assumed to be …

We describe a novel approach for the localization of tissue abnormalities during minimally
invasive surgery using a force-sensitive wheeled probe. The concept is to fuse the …

This paper presents a novel optical fiber-based rolling indentation probe designed to
measure the stiffness distribution of a soft tissue while rolling over the tissue surface during …

Humans can localize lumps in soft tissue using the distributed tactile feedback and
processing afforded by the fingers and brain. This task becomes extremely difficult when the …

This paper presents a novel fiber optic tactile probe designed for tissue palpation during
minimally invasive surgery (MIS). The probe consists of 3× 4 tactile sensing elements at 2.6 …

This paper presents a novel tactile probe head designed for tissue palpation during
minimally invasive surgery (MIS). The probe head uses fiber optics and consists of 14 tactile …