Method for the measurement of acoustic impedance and speed of sound in a small region of bone using a fused quartz rod as a transmission line

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 1: Regular Papers and Short Notes and Review Papers

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 6449-6454

  Hatakeyama, Rokuro ^a   Yoshizawa, Masazumi ^b   Moriya, Tadashi ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN COLLEGE OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; ATTENUATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GAMMA RAYS; QUARTZ; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

FUSED QUARTZ RODS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT);

BONE;

EID: 0034314875     PISSN: 00214922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/jjap.39.6449     Document Type: Article

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