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Abstract #2527

A small animal MR Elastography setup to study skeletal muscle damage and the etiology of pressure ulcers and related deep tissue injury.

Jules Nelissen 1,2 , Larry de Graaf 1 , Tom Schreurs 1,2 , Willeke Traa 3 , Kevin Moerman 4 , Cees Oomens 3 , Aart Nederveen 4 , Klaas Nicolay 1 , and Gustav Strijkers 1,2

1 Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 2 Biomedical Engineering and Physics, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 3 Soft Tissue Biomechanics and Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 4 Department of Radiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands

In order to study the role of tissue mechanical properties with MR Elastography (MRE) in the etiology of pressure ulcer related deep tissue injury a MRE actuator was added to a previously proposed MR compatible indentation setup for sustained tibialis anterior (TA) muscle loading in rats. We expect that the use of this novel device will provide new insights in the etiology of pressure ulcer related deep tissue injury.

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