Motion of a solid sphere in a viscoelastic medium in response to applied acoustic radiation force: Theoretical analysis and experimental verification

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1927-1936

  Aglyamov, Salavat R ^a,b   Karpiouk, Andrei B ^a   Ilinskii, Yurii A ^c   Zabolotskaya, Evgenia A ^c   Emelianov, Stanislav Y ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS OF BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRANSDUCERS; VISCOELASTICITY;

ACOUSTIC RADIATION; GEL-BASED PHANTOMS;

SPHERES;

ACCURACY; ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; DENSITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FORCE; GEL; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOTION; PARTICLE SIZE; PHANTOM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; SOLID; THEORETICAL MODEL; VISCOELASTICITY;

ACOUSTICS; BIOMECHANICS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELASTICITY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GELS; HUMANS; MICROBUBBLES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC THERAPY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 34848870518     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2774754     Document Type: Article

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