Ultrasonically determined thickness of long cortical bones: Two-dimensional simulations of in vitro experiments

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1818-1826

  Moilanen, Petro ^a   Talmant, Maryline ^a   Bousson, Valerie ^b   Nicholson, Patrick H F ^c   Cheng, Sulin ^c   Timonen, Jussi ^c   Laugier, Pascal ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b HÔPITAL LARIBOISIÈRE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; PHASE VELOCITY; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONICS;

AXIAL TRANSMISSION CONFIGURATION; CORTICAL THICKNESS;

BONE;

ARTICLE; BONE CONDUCTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICAL BONE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VITRO STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIUS; SIGNAL DETECTION; THICKNESS; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; GELS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 35248899981     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2756758     Document Type: Article

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