Recovery of the Lamé parameter μ in biological tissues

Inverse Problems

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-24

  Ji, Lin ^a   McLaughlin, Joyce ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC EXPANSION; LAME PARAMETER; ULTRASONIC SCANS;

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; STIFFNESS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

SHEAR WAVES;

EID: 0347312118     PISSN: 02665611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0266-5611/20/1/001     Document Type: Article

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