Magnetic Resonance Elastography (MRE) is a non-invasive imaging method to quantitatively map the shear viscoelastic properties of soft tissues. In this study, Embedded Direct Ink Writing is used to fabricate a muscle mimicking anisotropic phantom that may serve as a standard for imaging studies of anisotropic materials. The technique allowed us to obtain a long shelf life silicone-based phantom expressing transverse isotropic mechanical properties. Another goal of the present investigation is to introduce a torsionally-polarized, radially-converging shear wave actuation method for MRE. The implemented design for this novel setup was first validated via its application to isotropic and homogeneous gelatin phantoms. Then, a comparison of the resulting complex wave images from axially- and torsionally-polarized MRE on the developed anisotropic phantom and on a skeletal muscle murine sample is presented, highlighting the value of using multiple actuation and motion encoding polarization directions when studying anisotropic materials.
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