Modeling the impact of soft tissue on axial transmission measurements of ultrasonic guided waves in human radius

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2364-2373

  Moilanen, Petro ^a   Talmant, Maryline ^b,c   Kilappa, Vantte ^a   Nicholson, Patrick ^a   Cheng, Sulin ^a   Timonen, Jussi ^a   Laugier, Pascal ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c UPMC Univ Paris 06   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BONE; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONICS;

AXIAL TRANSMISSION; CLINICAL APPLICATIONS; CORTICAL BONES; CORTICAL THICKNESS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; GUIDED MODES; GUIDED WAVES; HUMAN RADIUS; IN VITRO MODELING; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; MATE RIAL PROPERTIES; RELATIVE INTENSITIES; SEMI-ANALYTICAL METHODS; SIMULATION STUDIES; SOFT TISSUES; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASONIC GUIDED WAVES; ULTRASOUND FREQUENCIES; ULTRASOUND VELOCITIES;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIUS; SIMULATION; SOFT TISSUE; THEORETICAL STUDY; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIUS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 53949103372     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2973228     Document Type: Article

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