Three-dimensional simulations of ultrasonic axial transmission velocity measurement on cortical bone models

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 115, Issue 5 I, 2004, Pages 2314-2324

  Bossy, Emmanuel ^a   Talmant, Maryline ^a   Laugier, Pascal ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ANISOTROPY; BONE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FREQUENCIES; POROSITY; ULTRASONIC EFFECTS;

CORTICAL BONE GEOMETRY; ULTRASONIC AXIAL TRANSMISSIONS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE EFFECTS;

ACOUSTICS;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BONE; CORTICAL BONE; ENERGY; GEOMETRY; MODEL; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND; THICKNESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND; VELOCITY;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; BONE AND BONES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POROSITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 2142716028     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1689960     Document Type: Article

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