Feasibility of bone assessment with leaky Lamb waves in bone phantoms and a bovine tibia

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 115, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 3210-3217

  Lee, K I ^a   Yoon, Suk Wang ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; BONE; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

BONE PHANTOMS; LEAKY LAMB WAVES; ULTRASONIC BONE ASSESSMENT;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ACOUSTICS; AGING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE; CATTLE; CORTICAL BONE; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; OSTEOPOROSIS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND TRANSMISSION; THICKNESS; TIBIA; ULTRASOUND; VELOCITY;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; CATTLE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; TIBIA; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 2942659241     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1707086     Document Type: Article

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