title: Acoustic anisotropy in bovine cancellous bone.
abstract: This paper presents the experimental results on the acoustic anisotropy in bovine cancellous bone. The propagation of both fast and slow longitudinal waves in bovine cancellous bone was experimentally examined in relation to the structural anisotropy, or the trabecular arrangement. Propagation speeds of the fast and slow waves were measured as a function of the propagation angle to the trabecular alignment, and theoretically estimated by use of Biot's theory for an isotropic medium.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Doshisha University, Kyotanabe-shi, Japan.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hosokawa
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Otani
mesh_terms: D000162:Acoustics; D000818:Animals; D016880:Anisotropy; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000502:physiology*; D002417:Cattle; D008954:Models, Biological