Our Biomechanics Testing Lab has an EnduraTec ELF3200 testing system, which has 0.02N force resolution and 0.5µm displacement resolution. This system is capable of both static and dynamic testing.
This system itself does not have any imaging capability. However, if you use a small enough indentor and move the sample slowly along a certain trajectory, you are doing localized measurement - you are doing a (low-resolution) imaging! Our smallest indentor is about 60µm in diameter. The Kahn 2015 paper has this imaging data.
Representative Publications with Biomechanical Data:
H Alhadlaq, Y Xia, J B Moody, J Matyas, " Detecting structural changes in early experimental osteoarthritis of tibial cartilage by microscopic magnetic resonance imaging and polarised light microscopy ", Annals of Rheumatic Diseases, 63 (6), 709-717 (2004).
Y Xia, SK Zheng, M Szarko, JH Lee, “Anisotropic Properties of Bovine Nasal Cartilage”, Microscopy Research and Technique, 75 (3), 300-306 (2012). (PMID: 21823202; PMCID: PMC3222710)
M Szarko, Y Xia, “Direct Visualisation of the Depth-Dependent Mechanical Properties of Full-Thickness Articular Cartilage”, Open Journal of Orthopedics, 2, 34-39 (2012). (PubMed PMID: 24416657; PMCID: PMC3886840)
JH Lee, F Badar, D Kahn, J Matyas, XG Qu, CT Chen, Y Xia, “Topographical Variations of the Strain-dependent Zonal Properties of Tibial Articular Cartilage by Microscopic MRI”, Connective Tissue Research, 55 (3), 205-216 (2014). (PMID: 24559385)
D Kahn, C Les, Y Xia, “Effects of Cryopreservation on the Depth-Dependent Elastic Modulus in Articular Cartilage and Implications for Osteochondral Grafting”, Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, 137, 054502 (2015).