Our preliminary results demonstrated that this ultrasound method may provide a potential tool for the nondestructive measurement of the transient depth-dependent processes involved in biological and bioengineered soft tissues as well as soft biomaterials under dynamic loading.
The objective of this paper was to introduce our recent development for nondestructively measuring the transient depth-dependent strains of full-thickness articular cartilage specimens prepared from bovine patellae.
Zheng and colleagues developed a new ultrasound system for monitoring transient depth-dependent osmotic swelling and solute diffusion in articular cartilage [ 14- 16].
Further studies have recently been carried out by Zheng and colleagues [ 14] and Wang and colleagues [ 15, 16], who developed a new ultrasound system for monitoring transient depth-dependent osmotic swelling and solute diffusion in articular cartilage.
The system was developed to monitor articular cartilage in terms of the transient depth-dependent swelling behaviour and the transport of solutes induced by changing the concentration of the bathing saline solution.
The transient crater depth growth is fit by an arctangent fitting function, which predicts the steady crater depth, and is compared to the logarithmic growth function that is generally used for early crater growth.
Ultrasound assessment by osmotic loading can provide transient and depth-dependent swelling information for articular cartilage in situ.
However, the trends in transient drawdown with depth, measured in multilevel sampling points, corresponded particularly well with those of solute mass flux.
A large number of investigations are dedicated to the types of stability of the power systems, where some of them have directly focused on the transient stability, in-depth.
Both steady state and [Ca2+] i transients changed with depth of penetration.
An improved simulator for the transient behavior of horizontal depth filters, based on the one-dimensional simulator published recently by the authors, is developed.
