Nondestructive testing in human teeth using a leaky Lamb wave device

Ultrasonics

Volumn 44, Issue SUPPL., 2006, Pages

  Toda, Shinji ^a   Fujita, Takeshi ^b   Arakawa, Hirohisa ^a   Toda, Kohji ^b  

^a KANAGAWA DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL DEFENSE ACADEMY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Higher order mode; Human teeth; Interdigital transducer; Lamb wave device; Layered substrate; Nondestructive testing

Indexed keywords

NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; RADIATION; REFLECTION; ULTRASONIC DEVICES; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

HIGHER ORDER MODES; HUMAN TEETH; INTERDIGITAL TRANSDUCERS; LAMB WAVE DEVICES; LAYERED SUBSTRATES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOOTH;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MATERIALS TESTING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOOTH; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33845716638     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2006.05.157     Document Type: Article

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