Background To evaluate whether conventional ultrasound, elastography [conventional strain elastography of elasticity imaging, acoustic radiation force impulse induced strain elastography of virtual touch tissue imaging, and a novel two-dimensional shear wave elastography of virtual touch tissue imaging quantification] and clinicopathological factors are associated with axillary lymph node metas...

S U M M A R Y The variation of frequency-dependent seismic wave attenuation with direction (attenuation anisotropy) contains additional information to that contained in velocity anisotropy. In particular, it has the potential to distinguish between different mechanisms that can cause velocity anisotropy. For example, aligned fracturing might be expected to cause measurable velocity and attenuat...

The motion of an edge dislocation is analyzed for temperatures ranging from 10 K to 200 K and for stresses up to 5 GPa. The dislocation velocity versus the applied shear stress curve can be divided into four regimes corresponding to successively higher shear stresses. In the first regime, the applied shear stress is below the Peierls stress and the dislocation velocity is nominally zero. In the...

Long-period surface waves are used to map lateral heterogeneities of velocity and anisotropy in the upper mantle. The dispersion curves are expanded in spherical harmonics up to degree 6 and inverted to find the depth structure. The data are corrected for the effect of surface layers and both Love and Rayleigh waves are used. Shear wave velocity and shear polarization anisotropy can be resolved...

In a previous study published in this journal, the authors developed a comprehensive methodology for modelling the shear wave velocity profile in crustal rock, for purposes of seismic hazard assessment. The derived shear wave velocity profile was used to estimate the amplification and attenuation mechanisms in the transmission of seismic waves. The ability to conduct seismic hazard assessments ...

contrary to the long period ground motions that can be predicted and estimated, high frequency ground motions have random character and behave stochastically. stochastic modeling methods are usually used for the modeling of high frequency ground motions where there are not strong ground motion records. stochastic methods are of two kinds: in the first one, the seismic source is considered as a ...

Ultrasonic shear-wave propagation studies have been carried out for the measurements of velocity and attenuation in some rocks, concrete and synthetic materials at room conditions. It has been found that ‘pulse broadening’, which occurs due to attenuation, can be measured quite accurately while carrying out shearwave velocity measurements in them. The pulse broadening data could be used to dete...

Converted-wave data have been recognized to have potential in complementing conventional compressional data. However, imaging for converted-waves is more difficult mainly due to the need for estimating shear-wave velocities, in addition to compressional-wave velocities. The common practice is to obtain the shear-wave velocity by registering PS and PP images. Despite its low cost, this procedure...

[1] We use neural networks to find 1-dimensional marginal probability density functions (pdfs) of global crustal parameters. The information content of the full posterior and prior pdfs can quantify the extent to which a parameter is constrained by the data. We inverted fundamental mode Love and Rayleigh wave phase and group velocity maps for pdfs of crustal thickness and independently of verti...