Poroelasticity as a Model of Soft Tissue Structure : Hydraulic Permeability Reconstruction for Magnetic Resonance Elastography in Silico

Magnetic Resonance Elastography allows noninvasive visualization of tissue mechanical properties by measuring the displacements resulting from applied stresses, and fitting a mechanical model. Poroelasticity naturally lends itself to describing tissue - a biphasic medium, consisting of both solid and fluid components. This article reviews the theory of poroelasticity, and shows that the spatial distribution of hydraulic permeability, the ease with which the solid matrix permits the flow of fluid under a pressure gradient, can be faithfully reconstructed without spatial priors in simulated environments. The paper describes an in-house MRE computational platform - a multi-mesh, finite element poroelastic solver coupled to an artificial epistemic agent capable of running Bayesian inference to reconstruct inhomogenous model mechanical property images from measured displacement fields. Building on prior work, the domain of convergence for inference is explored, showing that hydraulic permeabilities over several orders of magnitude can be reconstructed given very little prior knowledge of the true spatial distribution.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:8

Enthalten in:

Frontiers in physics - 8(2021) vom: 01. Jan.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sowinski, Damian R [VerfasserIn]
McGarry, Matthew D J [VerfasserIn]
Van Houten, Elijah E W [VerfasserIn]
Gordon-Wylie, Scott [VerfasserIn]
Weaver, John B [VerfasserIn]
Paulsen, Keith D [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Bayesian Inference
Biomechanics
Biophysics
Continuum Mechanics
Effective Field Theory
Elastography
Journal Article
MRI
Porous Materials

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Date Revised 08.11.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3389/fphy.2020.617582

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM348548133