Abstract :
The following topics are dealt with: ultrasonic propagation of reflected waves in cancellous bone; Application of Biot theory; Numerical Simulations of Electric Fields in Bone Induced by an Ultrasound Wave Using a Piezoelectric Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method; Physical Models of Cortical Bone Conditions, Fabricated by a 3D Printer to Test for Sensitivity of Axial Transmission Technique; A genetic algorithms-based optimization method for estimating thickness and porosity of cortical bone from guided wave measurements; Ex-vivo Measurements of Quantitative Ultrasound and MicroCT Parameters on Intact Human Femoral Heads; Mechanosensitve Response of Murine C2C12 Myoblasts to a Novel Focused Low-Intensity Pulsed Ultrasound (FLIPUS); Propagation models; Backscattering; Guided waves; Nonlinear acoustics; Clinical applications and novel instrumentation and Numerical Modeling of Ultrasound Wave Propagation in Bones.
Keywords :
biomechanics; biomedical ultrasonics; bone; computerised tomography; finite difference time-domain analysis; genetic algorithms; numerical analysis; physiological models; porosity; three-dimensional printing; ultrasonic propagation; ultrasonic therapy; 3D printer; Biot theory; FLIPUS; axial transmission technique sensitivity; backscattering; bones; cancellous bone; clinical applications; clinical instrumentation; cortical bone conditions; cortical bone porosity; cortical bone thickness; electric field; ex-vivo measurements; focused low-intensity pulsed ultrasound; genetic algorithms-based optimization method; guided wave measurements; guided waves; intact human femoral heads; mechanosensitve response; microCT parameters; murine C2C12 myoblasts; nonlinear acoustics; numerical modeling; numerical simulations; physical model; piezoelectric finite-difference time-domain method; propagation models; quantitative ultrasound; reflected waves; ultrasound wave propagation;
Conference_Titel :
Ultrasonic Characterization of Bone (ESUCB), 2015 6th European Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Corfu
DOI :
10.1109/ESUCB.2015.7169878
