Singular value decomposition-based wave extraction in axial transmission: Application to cortical bone ultrasonic characterization [correspondence]

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1328-1332

  Sasso, Magali ^a   Haiat, Guillaume ^a   Talmant, Maryline ^b,c   Laugier, Pascal ^b,c   Naili, Salah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST CRÉTEIL   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE; EXTRACTION; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

AXIAL TRANSMISSION; CLASSICAL METHODS; CORTICAL BONES; EXTRACTION ALGORITHMS; GROUP VELOCITY (GV); IN ORDER; IN-VIVO; SINGULAR VALUES; SYNTHETIC DATA; ULTRASONIC CHARACTERIZATION;

SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BONE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITOMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING;

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

EID: 44949160979     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2008.795     Document Type: Article

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