Empirical estimation of Young’s modulus for biological tissue mimics using acoustic impedance measurements: A study on agar gel tissue phantoms

• Shinri Morodomi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Aichi, Japan

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• Kazushi Ito,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Aichi, Japan

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• Satoru Maegawa,

  Roles Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Aichi, Japan

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• Yoshihiro Ujihara,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Aichi, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5715-6688

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• Shukei Sugita,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Aichi, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0922-2465

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• Masanori Nakamura

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: masanorin@nitech.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Aichi, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6867-0786

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