Effective shear modulus reconstruction obtained with approximate mean normal stress remaining unknown

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2394-2402

  Sumi, Chikayoshi ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Japan)

^b SOPHIA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC EQUATIONS; QUASIREFERENCE REGION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; STRESS MEASUREMENT; TISSUE;

ELASTIC MODULI;

EID: 37049029402     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2007.544     Document Type: Article

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