Propagation of shear waves generated by a modulated finite amplitude radiation force in a viscoelastic medium

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 575-588

  Giannoula, Alexia ^a   Cobbold, Richard S C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT FREQUENCIES; DISPERSIVE EFFECTS; DYNAMIC RADIATION FORCES; FIELD COMPONENTS; FINITE AMPLITUDES; FOCUSING GAINS; HARMONIC SHEAR WAVES; K SPACES; LOW FREQUENCIES; LOW PASS; MODULATION FREQUENCIES; NARROW BANDS; NON LINEARITIES; PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS; RADIATION FORCES; SAFETY STANDARDS; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SOFT TISSUES; SPECTRAL COMPONENTS; ULTRASOUND BEAMS; VISCO-ELASTIC PROPERTIES; VISCOELASTIC MEDIUMS; VOIGT MODELS; WAVE DETECTIONS;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; MODULATION; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

SHEAR WAVES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PRESSURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; VISCOSITY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PRESSURE; TEMPERATURE; VISCOSITY;

EID: 65349173033     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2009.1074     Document Type: Article

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