Ultrasonic techniques to assess the properties of hard and soft biological tissues

Key Engineering Materials

Volumn 270-273, Issue III, 2004, Pages 2055-2060

  Wang, Shyh Hau ^a   Tsui, Po Hsiang ^a  

^a CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Backscattering; Blood Coagulation; Osteoporosis; Sound Velocity

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ATTENUATION; BACKSCATTERING; BLOOD; ELASTICITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SCATTERING; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ACOUSTIC ENERGY LOSS; SOFT TISSUES; THERMAL ENERGY; ULTRASONIC ATTENUATION;

TISSUE;

EID: 8644282799     PISSN: 10139826     EISSN: 16629795     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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