The effect of boundary conditions on guided wave propagation in two-dimensional models of healing bone

Ultrasonics

Volumn 48, Issue 6-7, 2008, Pages 598-606

  Vavva, Maria G ^a   Protopappas, Vasilios C ^a,b   Gergidis, Leonidas N ^a   Charalambopoulos, Antonios ^a   Fotiadis, Dimitrios I ^a,b   Polyzos, Demos ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF HUMAN PERFORMANCE AND REHABILITATION   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Boundary conditions; Fracture healing; Guided waves; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC WAVES; BLOOD; BONE; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; FRACTURE; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; PROCESS ENGINEERING; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SURFACES; TWO DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONIC PROPAGATION; ULTRASONICS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; BONE MARROWS; CALLUS TISSUES; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; DIMENSIONAL MODELS; FLUID LOADINGS; FRACTURE HEALING; GUIDED WAVE PROPAGATIONS; GUIDED WAVES; INFINITE FLUIDS; INHOMOGENEOUS MATERIALS; LAYER MODELS; SIMPLIFIED MODELS; STUDY CASES; THICK LAYERS; TIME FREQUENCIES; ULTRASONIC CHARACTERIZATIONS; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND PROPAGATIONS; UPPER SURFACES;

SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSDUCER;

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 55249094345     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2008.04.013     Document Type: Article

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