Development of a numerical cancellous bone model for finite-difference time-domain simulations of ultrasound propagation

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1219-1233

  Hosokawa, Atsushi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVES; BONE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CRACK PROPAGATION; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MEDICAL IMAGING; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MODAL ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PORE STRUCTURE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC PROPAGATION; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONICS;

ATTENUATION ,; CANCELLOUS BONES; FINITE DIFFERENCE (FD); FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD) SIMULATIONS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; PORE SPACES; PROPAGATION PROPERTIES; PROPAGATION SPEED; SIMPLIFIED MODELS; SIMULATED RESULTS; SPHERICAL PORES; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D); TIME DOMAIN (OCT); TRABECULAR ORIENTATION; TRABECULAR STRUCTURES; ULTRASOUND PROPAGATION; ULTRASOUND PULSES; WAVEFORMS; X RAY MICRO COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (MICROCT);

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BONE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITOMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING;

ALGORITHMS; BONE AND BONES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITOMETRY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 44949141391     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2008.785     Document Type: Article

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