Date of download: 11/4/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: An Active Dynamic Vibration Absorber for a Hand-Held Vibro-Elastography Probe J. Vib. Acoust. 2006;129(1):101-112. doi:10.1115/1.2424982 Figure Legend: Hard and soft inclusions are subject to an external compression (F)

Date of download: 11/4/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: An Active Dynamic Vibration Absorber for a Hand-Held Vibro-Elastography Probe J. Vib. Acoust. 2006;129(1):101-112. doi:10.1115/1.2424982 Figure Legend: DVA with zero damping attached to the primary system

Date of download: 11/4/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: An Active Dynamic Vibration Absorber for a Hand-Held Vibro-Elastography Probe J. Vib. Acoust. 2006;129(1):101-112. doi:10.1115/1.2424982 Figure Legend: Active DVA attached to the primary system

Date of download: 11/4/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: An Active Dynamic Vibration Absorber for a Hand-Held Vibro-Elastography Probe J. Vib. Acoust. 2006;129(1):101-112. doi:10.1115/1.2424982 Figure Legend: Block diagram representation of the PI controller

Date of download: 11/4/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: An Active Dynamic Vibration Absorber for a Hand-Held Vibro-Elastography Probe J. Vib. Acoust. 2006;129(1):101-112. doi:10.1115/1.2424982 Figure Legend: Stability chart. Kp and frequency versus Ki. The dashed and solid curves correspond to the combined system and absorber system, respectively.

Date of download: 11/4/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: An Active Dynamic Vibration Absorber for a Hand-Held Vibro-Elastography Probe J. Vib. Acoust. 2006;129(1):101-112. doi:10.1115/1.2424982 Figure Legend: Minimum operational frequency versus k

Date of download: 11/4/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: An Active Dynamic Vibration Absorber for a Hand-Held Vibro-Elastography Probe J. Vib. Acoust. 2006;129(1):101-112. doi:10.1115/1.2424982 Figure Legend: Root locus plot of the poles of the transfer function of the PD with absolute absorber mass position and velocity, neglecting the dynamics of the actuator and filters

Date of download: 11/4/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: An Active Dynamic Vibration Absorber for a Hand-Held Vibro-Elastography Probe J. Vib. Acoust. 2006;129(1):101-112. doi:10.1115/1.2424982 Figure Legend: Root locus plot of the poles of the transfer function of the PD with relative absorber mass position and velocity, neglecting the dynamics of the actuator and filters

Date of download: 11/4/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: An Active Dynamic Vibration Absorber for a Hand-Held Vibro-Elastography Probe J. Vib. Acoust. 2006;129(1):101-112. doi:10.1115/1.2424982 Figure Legend: Root locus plot of PI transfer function’s poles, neglecting the dynamics of the actuator and filters

Date of download: 11/4/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: An Active Dynamic Vibration Absorber for a Hand-Held Vibro-Elastography Probe J. Vib. Acoust. 2006;129(1):101-112. doi:10.1115/1.2424982 Figure Legend: Root locus plot of DR transfer function’s poles and zeros, neglecting the dynamics of the actuator and filters

Date of download: 11/4/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: An Active Dynamic Vibration Absorber for a Hand-Held Vibro-Elastography Probe J. Vib. Acoust. 2006;129(1):101-112. doi:10.1115/1.2424982 Figure Legend: The hand-held device held by the mechanical arm

Date of download: 11/4/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: An Active Dynamic Vibration Absorber for a Hand-Held Vibro-Elastography Probe J. Vib. Acoust. 2006;129(1):101-112. doi:10.1115/1.2424982 Figure Legend: Probe vibration for experiments with a human operator on real tissue. The vibration absorber is turned on at t=0.7

Date of download: 11/4/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: An Active Dynamic Vibration Absorber for a Hand-Held Vibro-Elastography Probe J. Vib. Acoust. 2006;129(1):101-112. doi:10.1115/1.2424982 Figure Legend: Ωi for i=3 and its corresponding ωe