TY - JOUR AU - Melchor Rodríguez, Juan Manuel AU - Muñoz Beltrán, Rafael AU - Rus Carlborg, Guillermo PY - 2017 SN - 1424-8220 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10481/47291 AB - Torsion mechanical waves have the capability to characterize shear stiffness moduli of soft tissue. Under this hypothesis, a computational methodology is proposed to design and optimize a piezoelectrics-based transmitter and receiver to generate and... LA - eng PB - MDPI KW - Torsional ultrasound KW - Probability of detection KW - Soft tissue mechanics KW - Finite element method KW - Optimization KW - Inverse problem TI - Torsional Ultrasound Sensor Optimization for Soft Tissue Characterization DO - 10.3390/s17061402 ER -