Measurement of the Dispersion and Attenuation of Cylindrical Ultrasonic Guided Waves in Long Bone

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 641-652

  Ta, Dean ^a   Wang, Weiqi ^a   Wang, YuanYuan ^a   Le, Lawrence H ^b   Zhou, Yuqing ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Cylindrical guided waves; Dispersion; Long bone; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; CORTICAL BONES; CORTICAL THICKNESS; CYLINDRICAL GUIDED WAVES; DISPERSIVE CURVES; GUIDED WAVE MODES; HOLLOW CYLINDERS; LONG BONE; LOW FREQUENCIES; MODE ORDERS; NON-LINEAR FUNCTIONS; OSTEOPOROTIC; PHASE AND GROUP VELOCITIES; PROPAGATION DISTANCES; ULTRASONIC GUIDED WAVES; ULTRASOUND; VISCOUS LIQUIDS; WORK STUDIES;

BONE; DISPERSION (WAVES); DISPERSIONS; PHASE VELOCITY; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONIC WAVES; ULTRASONICS; VELOCITY;

GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; DISPERSION; LONG BONE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIBIA; ULTRASOUND;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; CATTLE; OSTEOPOROSIS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 62849105585     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2008.10.007     Document Type: Article

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