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  • Medical Imaging

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  • Disease alters tissue microstructure, affecting macroscopic mechanical properties.
  • Current elasticity imaging infers constitutive parameters but cannot link them to microstructure.
  • Linking constitutive models to microstructural representations allows inference of microstructural parameters.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To derive a constitutive model from a microstructural representation of tissue.
  • To use this model in an inverse problem to infer microstructural parameters from macroscopic measurements.
  • To demonstrate the feasibility of imaging local averages of microstructural parameters.

Main Methods:

  • Derived a constitutive model by homogenizing the mechanical response of a network of elastic, tortuous fibers.
  • Formulated the inverse problem as a constrained minimization problem.
  • Developed efficient methods for solving the inverse problem.

Main Results:

  • Applied the methods to displacement fields from deforming gelatin-agar co-gels.
  • Successfully determined the spatial distribution of agar concentration and fiber tortuosity.
  • Demonstrated the possibility of imaging local averages of microstructural parameters.

Conclusions:

  • The developed constitutive model enables the inference of microstructural parameters from macroscopic deformation measurements.
  • This approach allows for non-invasive imaging of tissue microstructure.
  • The findings have potential applications in disease diagnosis and monitoring.