Negative dispersion in bone: The role of interference in measurements of the apparent phase velocity of two temporally overlapping signals

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2407-2414

  Bauer, Adam Q ^a   Marutyan, Karen R ^a   Holland, Mark R ^a   Miller, James G ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY; BONE; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; PHASE VELOCITY; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; WAVEGUIDE ATTENUATORS;

BONE MEASUREMENTS; DISCONTINUITY; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCES; ULTRASONIC FIELDS;

ACOUSTIC DISPERSION;

ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BONE STRUCTURE; CANCELLOUS BONE; DEVICE; DISPERSION; MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION METHOD; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRASOUND; VELOCITY;

BONE AND BONES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 41849120801     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2839893     Document Type: Article

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