Deep Tissue Characterization with Optical Coherence Elastography: A Comparison of Different Methods
Parmar A, Sharma G, Ramming A, Singh K (2022)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2022
Journal
Book Volume: 15
Article Number: 8558
Journal Issue: 23
DOI: 10.3390/ma15238558
Abstract
The measurement of the biomechanical properties of the skin is of great interest since these properties play an important role in the development of several diseases such as skin cancer and systemic sclerosis. In this direction, several diagnostic tools have been developed to analyze the mechanical properties of the skin. Optical coherence elastography (OCE) is one of the emerging imaging techniques used for the characterization of the mechanical properties of the tissue quantitatively. In systemic sclerosis patients, the measurement of the mechanical properties of the deeper skin layers is desirable compared to the superficial layers. There are several variants of OCE that exist, but it is still not clear which method is more suitable for the measurement of the mechanical properties of the deeper tissue. In this work, we tested three common methods, the pulsed excitation method, the continuous wave excitation method, and the resonant frequency method, for the measurement of the mechanical properties of the deeper layers in the tissue. We found out that the pulsed wave excitation method provides the most reliable measurements in the shortest possible time compared to the other two methods.
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Parmar, A., Sharma, G., Ramming, A., & Singh, K. (2022). Deep Tissue Characterization with Optical Coherence Elastography: A Comparison of Different Methods. Materials, 15(23). https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma15238558
MLA:
Parmar, Asha, et al. "Deep Tissue Characterization with Optical Coherence Elastography: A Comparison of Different Methods." Materials 15.23 (2022).
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