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    In various medical fields, a change of soft tissue stiffness is associated with its physio-pathological evolution. While elastography is extensively employed to assess soft tissue stiffness in vivo, its application requires a complex and expensive technology. The aim of this study is to determine whether an easy-to-use method based on impact analysis can be employed to determine the concentration of agar-based soft tissue mimicking phantoms. Impact analysis was performed on soft tissue mimicking phantoms made of agar gel with a mass concentration ranging from 1% to 5%. An indicator Δt is derived from the temporal variation of the impact force signal between the hammer and a small beam in contact with the sample. The results show a non-linear decrease of Δt as a function of the agar concentration (and thus of the sample stiffness). The value of Δt provides an estimation of the agar concentration with an error of 0.11%. This sensitivity of the impact analysis based method to the agar concentration is of the same order of magnitude than results obtained with elastography techniques. This study opens new paths towards the development of impact analysis for a fast, easy and relatively inexpensive clinical evaluation of soft tissue elastic properties. Copyright © 2024 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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    Anne-Sophie Poudrel, Arthur Bouffandeau, Oriane Le Demeet, Giuseppe Rosi, Vu-Hieu Nguyen, Guillaume Haiat. Characterization of the concentration of agar-based soft tissue mimicking phantoms by impact analysis. Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials. 2024 Apr;152:106465

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