Elastic properties of tendon measured by two different approaches

Quantitative Characterization of Viscoelastic Properties of Human Prostate Correlated with Histology

“…Several groups (Dunn and Silver 1983;Hof 2003;Huang et al 2005;Klein et al 2005;Kuo et al 2001;Lally et al 2004;Provenzano et al 2002;Silver et al 2001;Suki et al 1994;Wu et al 2003) have reported findings on mechanical properties of some soft tissues, but most of their studies were focused on tendons, ligaments, cartilage, skin, muscles, lungs or arteries. In contrast, just a few publications (Jalkanen et al 2006a(Jalkanen et al , 2006bKrouskop et al 1998;Phipps et al 2005aPhipps et al , 2005bYang et al 2006) presented quantitative results on prostate tissue stiffness.…”

Congruence of Imaging Estimators and Mechanical Measurements of Viscoelastic Properties of Soft Tissues

“…In practice, the reliable data on soft tissue properties are limited in the literature, although this need is vast. Several groups (Dunn and Silver 1983;Hof 2003;Huang et al 2005;Klein et al 2005;Kuo et al 2001;Lally et al 2004;Provenzano et al 2002;Silver et al 2001;Suki et al 1994;Wu et al 2003) have reported findings on mechanical properties of some soft tissues, but most of their studies were focused on tendons, ligaments, cartilage, skin, muscles, lungs, or arteries, which, to some extent, have active force-generating mechanical properties. In contrast, just a few publications (Arbogast and Margulies 1998;Chen et al 1996;Darvish and Crandall 2001;Krouskop et al 1998;Liu and Bilston 2000;Nasseri et al 2002;Phipps et al 2005aPhipps et al , 2005bSnedeker et al 2005;Yang and Church 2006;Yeh et al 2002) presented quantitative results on the viscoelastic behavior of tissues such as brain, breast, prostate, liver, or kidney.…”

Elasticity of the Supraspinatus Tendon-muscle Unit is Preserved after Acute Tendon Tearing in the Rabbit

“…They found that the maximal speed occurred when the propagation was parallel to the longitudinal fiber axis. The speed decreased as the angle relative to the fiber axis increased (Kuo et al 2001). Based on these previous reports, we believed that the anisotropy of the tissue did not affect the measurement results significantly in the present study, since we standardized the cutting direction of the specimens and used identical cutting plane for SAM measurements.…”

“…They reported that the anisotropy of these muscles was quite small (Topp and O'Brien 2000). As for tendon tissue, Kuo et al (2001) measured the sound speed of fresh bovine Achilles tendon in various directions of propagation. They found that the maximal speed occurred when the propagation was parallel to the longitudinal fiber axis.…”