title: A new Tissue Resonator Indenter Device and reliability study.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto/5 King's College Road, Toronto, ON M5S 3G8, Canada. m.jia@utoronto.ca
authors.forename: Ming
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jia
authors.forename: Jean W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Zu
authors.forename: Alireza
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hariri