Transient elastography in anisotropic medium: Application to the measurement of slow and fast shear wave speeds in muscles

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 536-541

  Gennisson, Jean Luc ^a   Catheline, Stefan ^a   Chaffaï, Sana ^a   Fink, Mathias ^a  

^a INSTITUT LANGEVIN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULI; FREQUENCIES; GREEN'S FUNCTION; MUSCLE; POLARIZATION;

ELASTOGRAPHY;

SHEAR WAVES;

ACOUSTICS; BIOLOGY; WAVE;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BEEF CATTLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CALCULATION; ELASTOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; MUSCLE TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMITENDINOUS MUSCLE; SHEAR FLOW; SIMULATION; SOFT TISSUE; YOUNG MODULUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; CATTLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SHEAR STRENGTH; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 0038165821     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1579008     Document Type: Article

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