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Title: Development of a Laser Vibrometer-Based Shear Wave Sensing System for Characterizing Mechanical Properties of Viscoelastic Materials
Abstract Characterizing the mechanical properties of viscoelastic materials is critical in biomedical applications such as detecting breast cancer, skin diseases, myocardial diseases, and hepatic fibrosis. Current methods lack the consideration of dispersion curves that depend on material properties and shear wave frequency. This paper presents a novel method that combines noncontact shear wave sensing and dispersion analysis to characterize the mechanical properties of viscoelastic materials. Our shear wave sensing system uses a piezoelectric stack (PZT stack) to generate shear waves and a laser Doppler vibrometer (LDV) integrated with a 3D robotic stage to acquire time-space wavefields. Next, an inverse method is employed for the wavefield analysis. This method leverages multi-dimensional Fourier transform and frequency-wavenumber dispersion curve regression. Through proof-of-concept experiments, our sensing system successfully generated shear waves and acquired its timespace wavefield in a customized viscoelastic phantom. After dispersion curve analysis, we successfully characterized two material properties (shear elasticity and shear viscosity) and measured shear wave velocities at different frequencies.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2243771
PAR ID:
10519345
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Date Published:
ISBN:
978-0-7918-8752-3
Format(s):
Medium: X
Location:
Austin, Texas, USA
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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