Guided ultrasound wave propagation in intact and healing long bones

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 693-708

  Protopappas, Vasilios C ^a   Fotiadis, Dimitrios I ^a,b   Malizos, Konstantinos N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bone fracture healing; Guided waves; Time frequency analysis; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BONE; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ULTRASONIC WAVES; ULTRASONICS;

BONE FRACTURE HEALING; FIRST ARRIVING SIGNAL (FAS); GUIDED ULTRASOUND PROPAGATION; TIME-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS;

WAVE PROPAGATION;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BONE PLATE; CALLUS; CORTICAL BONE; EXCITATION; FRACTURE HEALING; GEOMETRY; LONG BONE; MEASUREMENT; MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TIBIA; ULTRASOUND; VELOCITY; WAVEFORM;

EID: 33646124465     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2006.02.001     Document Type: Article

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