%0 Journal Article
%T A New Tissue Resonator Indenter Device and Reliability Study
%A Ming Jia
%A Jean W. Zu
%A Alireza Hariri
%J Sensors
%D 2011
%I MDPI AG
%R 10.3390/s110101212
%X Knowledge of tissue mechanical properties is widely required by medical applications, such as disease diagnostics, surgery operation, simulation, planning, and training. A new portable device, called Tissue Resonator Indenter Device (TRID), has been developed for measurement of regional viscoelastic properties of soft tissues at the Bio-instrument and Biomechanics Lab of the University of Toronto. As a device for soft tissue properties in-vivo measurements, the reliability of TRID is crucial. This paper presents TRID¡¯s working principle and the experimental study of TRID¡¯s reliability with respect to inter-reliability, intra-reliability, and the indenter misalignment effect as well.
%K tissue mechanical properties
%K TRID
%K reliability
%K indenter misalignment
%U http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/11/1/1212