Effects of nonlinearity on propagation through the skull

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 389-392

  Pinton, Gianmarco F ^a   Aubry, Jean Francois ^a   Tanter, Mickael ^a   Fink, Mathias ^a  

^a INSTITUT LANGEVIN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHODS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

HETEROGENEOUS MATERIALS; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; NONLINEAR COMPONENTS; SOFT TISSUE; ULTRASOUND WAVES;

ULTRASONIC WAVES;

EID: 77952812900     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2009.5441636     Document Type: Conference Paper

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