FDTD simulation of nonlinear ultrasonic pulse propagation in ESWL

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 7 VOLS, Issue , 2005, Pages 1806-1809

  Jian, X Q ^a   Morita, N ^b   Shi, Q D ^a   Nakamura, O ^c   Liu, D Sh ^a  

^a TIANJIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHIBA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; SHOCK WAVES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS;

LITHOTRIPSY; SHOCK WAVE PROPAGATION; ULTRASONIC PULSE NONLINEAR PROPAGATION;

WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 33846910231     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2005.1616799     Document Type: Conference Paper

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