Anisotropic tissue elasticity in human lumbar vertebra, by means of a coupled ultrasound-micromechanics approach

Materials Letters

Volumn 78, Issue , 2012, Pages 154-158

  Malandrino, Andrea ^a   Fritsch, Andreas ^b   Lahayne, Olaf ^b   Kropik, Karl ^c   Redl, Heinz ^c   Noailly, Jérôme ^a   Lacroix, Damien ^a   Hellmich, Christian ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR BIOENGINEERING OF CATALONIA IBEC   (Spain)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Human vertebra; Micromechanics; Tissue elasticity; Ultrasonics

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC CHARACTERISTIC; ANISOTROPIC ELASTICITY; BONE TISSUE; ELASTICITY TENSOR; FINE STRUCTURES; FRACTURE RISK ASSESSMENTS; HUMAN VERTEBRA; LARGE DATA; LOAD CARRYING; LONGITUDINAL ACOUSTIC WAVES; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MECHANICAL EFFECTS; TISSUE ELASTICITY; VERTEBRAL BONE; WAVE VELOCITY;

ACOUSTICS; BONE; COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE; MICROMECHANICS; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS;

MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM;

EID: 84861623004     PISSN: 0167577X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matlet.2012.03.052     Document Type: Article

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