EVALUATION CORTICAL BONE ELASTICITY IN RESPONSE TO PULSE POWER EXCITATION USING ULTRASONIC TECHNIQUE

Hajarossadat Asgarifar, Adekunle Oloyede, Firuz Zare, Christian M. Langton

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