An MRI-compatible foot-loading device for assessment of internal tissue deformation

Potentialities and Criticalities of Plantar Pressure Measurements in the Study of Foot Biomechanics: Devices, Methodologies and Applications

“…Novel computational approaches have been tried, validated and used in recent publications dealing with neural networks (Betker AL et al, 2005), fuzzy logics (Senanayake CM, Senanayake SM, 2010 a), cluster analysis (Giacomozzi C., Martelli F, 2006), finite element models (Shiang TY, 1997;Petre M et al, 2008;Gu YD et al, 2010;Chen WM et al, 2010), image processing techniques (Pataky TC et al, 2009;Oliveira FP, Tavares JM, 2010) and so on. Usually, the inputs of such models are represented by the above traditional parameters, their reliability strongly relying on the quality and reliability of raw data.…”

A novel MRI compatible soft tissue indentor and fibre Bragg grating force sensor

“…In addition, as is relevant here, they have been employed for non-invasive investigation of soft tissue biomechanics (e.g. [2,18,[22][23][24][25][26]). …”

“…[18,[22][23][24][25][26][27]), however their design is often tailored to suit their particular application (e.g. ranging from rat lower limb [18], to human footpad [25] and pigs buttock [23]) which, to date, has not included indentation of the upper arm. Despite this, a brief discussion of current soft tissue loading systems for the MRI environment is presented here.…”

“…Most current soft tissue loading systems do not have dynamic displacement or force control capabilities during imaging (e.g. [22,24,25]) and have so far been limited to quasi-static applications (e.g. [18,[22][23][24][25][26]).…”

“…[22,24,25]) and have so far been limited to quasi-static applications (e.g. [18,[22][23][24][25][26]). In some cases the load can only be applied prior to imaging and cannot be altered during scanning (e.g.…”