Simulation of shear wave propagation in a soft medium using a pseudospectral time domain method

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2108-2116

  Bastard, Ćcile ^a,c   Remeníras, Jean Pierre ^a   Calĺ, Samuel ^a   Sandrin, Laurent ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^b Echosens ^*  (France)

^c Res Dept   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; AXISYMMETRIC; COMPRESSION WAVES; DISPLACEMENT FIELD; ELASTOGRAPHY; HETEROGENEOUS TISSUES; HUMAN TISSUES; INVERSION ALGORITHM; NUMERICAL MODELS; PSEUDO-SPECTRAL TIME-DOMAIN METHOD; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; SIMULATION RESULT; SOFT TISSUE; TRANSIENT ELASTOGRAPHY; VISCOELASTIC MEDIUM;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; HISTOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; SIMULATORS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; LIVER; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MECHANICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR STRESS; SIMULATION; SOFT TISSUE; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TIME PERCEPTION; VELOCITY; VISCOELASTICITY; YOUNG MODULUS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONICS; VISCOSITY;

EID: 70350516979     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3206585     Document Type: Article

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