Primary Recipient

DUKE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$51,344.00

Award Date

8/13/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

The objective of the proposed research is to develop an ultrasonic, radiation-force based imaging system capable of locally quantifying the shear modulus of soft tissues throughout a 2D Field of View (FOV), and to investigate its utility in the context of