An error estimate on the direct inversion model in shear stiffness imaging

Inverse Problems

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Lin, Kui ^a   McLaughlin, Joyce ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MEDIA; ALGEBRAIC MODELS; DIRECT INVERSION; ERROR ESTIMATES; FIRST DERIVATIVE; FIRST ORDER PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATES; RELATIVE ERRORS; SHEAR MODULUS; SHEAR STIFFNESS; SIMULATED DATA; SINGLE COMPONENTS; THEORETICAL BOUNDS; THEORETICAL ERRORS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ELASTIC MODULI; ERROR ANALYSIS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SHEAR STRAIN; STIFFNESS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 70350686769     PISSN: 02665611     EISSN: 13616420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0266-5611/25/7/075003     Document Type: Article

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