Fig. 1.

MRE of agarose, heparin, and tofu blended with different amounts of water. (A) Maps of magnitude of the complex shear modulus (|G*|) and phase angle of the complex shear modulus (φ) in 3 phantom materials at different states of fluidity resulting from different amounts of water content. Top presents maps for materials with a larger dry solid fraction (heparin, 0.05; agar, 0.18; tofu, 0.2) whereas Bottom shows maps with a smaller dry solid fraction (heparin, 0.02; agar, 0.11; tofu, 0.12). (B) Changes in magnitude shear modulus (|G*|) and phase angle (φ) over dry solid fraction in the 3 phantom materials characterized by different water-binding capacity and polarity. Error bars indicate the SD of values within the sample volumes.