Full wave modeling of therapeutic ultrasound: Efficient time-domain implementation of the frequency power-law attenuation

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 2742-2750

  Liebler, Marko ^a   Ginter, Siegfried ^a,b   Dreyer, Thomas ^a   Riedlinger, Rainer E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b Richard Wolf GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; NUMERICAL METHODS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; ULTRASONICS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN (FDTD); FULL WAVE MODELING;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; FREQUENCY POWER LAW ATTENUATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; RADIATION ATTENUATION; SIMULATION; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRASOUND THERAPY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; CASTOR OIL; EPOXY RESINS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHTHALIC ANHYDRIDES; ULTRASONIC THERAPY; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 9644281076     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1798355     Document Type: Article

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