TY - JOUR AU - Callejas, Antonio AU - Gomez, Antonio AU - Melchor, Juan AU - Riveiro, Miguel AU - Masso, Paloma AU - Torres, Jorge AU - Lopez-Lopez, Modesto T. AU - Rus, Guillermo PY - 2017 DO - 10.3390/s17092078 SN - 1424-8220 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10668/19323 T2 - Sensors AB - A novel torsional wave sensor designed to characterize mechanical properties of soft tissues is presented in this work. Elastography is a widely used technique since the 1990s to map tissue stiffness. Moreover, quantitative elastography uses the... LA - en PB - MDPI AG KW - torsional wave sensor KW - tissue mimicking phantom KW - cervical tissue KW - rheological model KW - rheometry experiment KW - sensitivity study KW - complex shear modulus KW - Viscoelastic properties KW - Radiation force KW - Elastography KW - Ultrasound KW - Elasticity KW - Dispersion KW - Viscosity KW - Rheometry KW - Modulus KW - Mucosa KW - Elasticity Imaging Techniques KW - Incidence KW - Phantoms, Imaging KW - Musculoskeletal System KW - Reproduction TI - Performance Study of a Torsional Wave Sensor and Cervical Tissue Characterization TY - research article VL - 17 ER -