Noninvasive assessment of human jawbone using ultrasonic guided waves

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1316-1327

  Mahmoud, Ahmed ^a,b   Cortes, Daniel ^b   Abaza, Ayman ^a,b   Ammar, Hany ^a,b   Hazey, Mike ^b   Ngan, Peter ^b   Crout, Richard ^b   Mukdadi, Osama ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

(PL) PROPERTIES; BONE DENSITY (BD); BONE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CT) IMAGES; CROSS SECTIONING; CURRENT IMAGING; DISPERSION BEHAVIORS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL SET UPS; FINITE ELEMENT (FE); GROUP VELOCITY (GV); GUIDED WAVE PROPAGATION; GUIDED WAVES; HUMAN MANDIBLES; IMAGING MODALITIES; MATE RIAL PROPERTIES; MICROSTRUCTURAL PROPERTIES; NON INVASIVE ASSESSMENTS; OSTEOPOROTIC; TRABECULAR BONES; ULTRASONIC GUIDED WAVES;

BONE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DECISION MAKING; DEFECTS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; DISPERSION (WAVES); EXPERIMENTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOMETRY; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MEDICAL IMAGING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC WAVES; ULTRASONICS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVES;

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITOMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; JAW; JAW DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITOMETRY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; JAW; JAW DISEASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 44949142889     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2008.794     Document Type: Article

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