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Dynamic X-ray elastography: A new tool for characterizing soft materials

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Dynamic X-ray elastography using propagating shear waves is a novel technique to visualize the spatial distribution of elasticity in soft materials. We demonstrate that it can be applied to a gel sample with a fine structure. We prepared a viscoelastic gel sample with a two-dimensional lattice structure filled with ZrO2 particles, and applied the technique to map storage and loss moduli. The obtained storage modulus map successfully distinguished the harder lattice structure from the soft gel matrix with a spatial resolution much higher than those of other conventional elastography techniques using magnetic resonance and ultrasound.

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Acknowledgments

This research was supported by AMED under Grant Number JP17hm0102054 and JST CREST Grant Number JPMJCR1765. We would like to thank Editage (www.editage.com) for English language editing.

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  1. Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials (IMRAM), Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8577, Japan

    Chika Kamezawa & Wataru Yashiro

  2. Department of Materials Structure Science, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0801, Japan

    Chika Kamezawa

  3. Photon Factory, Institute of Materials Structure Science/ KEK, 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0801, Japan

    Chika Kamezawa & Kazuyuki Hyodo

  4. Department of Radiological Sciences, Graduate School of Human Health Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 7-2-10 Higashi-Ogu, Arakawa-ku, Tokyo, 116-8551, Japan

    Tomokazu Numano

  5. Takashima Seisakusyo Co., Ltd, 2-12-7 Asahigaoka, Hino, Tokyo, 191-0065, Japan

    Yoshihiko Kawabata

  6. Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamagata University, Jonan 4-3-16, Yonezawa, Yamagata, 992-8510, Japan

    Shota Inoue, Masaru Kawakami & Hidemitsu Furukawa

  7. Life-3D Printing Innovation Center, Yamagata University, 4-3-16 Jonan, Yonezawa, Yamagata, 992-8510, Japan

    Shota Inoue, Masaru Kawakami & Hidemitsu Furukawa

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Movie 1: Stroboscopic X-ray projection images at five phases. Supplementary material 1 (AVI 1616 kb)

Movie 2: Maps of displacement in the vertical (a) and horizontal (b) directions induced by shear waves propagating in the sample. Supplementary material 2 (MP4 650 kb)

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Kamezawa, C., Numano, T., Kawabata, Y. et al. Dynamic X-ray elastography: A new tool for characterizing soft materials. MRS Communications 11, 46–50 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1557/s43579-020-00004-w

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