Ultrasonic measurement of the human achilles tendon stress during loading: Preliminary experimental and theoretical results

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 1675-1678

  Roux, C ^a   Defontaine, M ^a  

^a GIP Ultrasons/EA   (France)

Author keywords

Lateral wave; Tendon celerity; Tendon stress; Wave propagation model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WAVE PROPAGATION;

LATERAL WAVES; TENDON CELERITY; TENDON STRESS; WAVE PROPAGATION MODEL;

TISSUE;

EID: 33847102236     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2005.1603186     Document Type: Conference Paper

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