简介：Usingultrasonicguidedwavestoassesslongbonefracturesandfracturehealinghasbecomeapromisingdiagnosticissue.Butthemultimodeoverlapoftheguidedwaveschallengesthequantitativeevaluationandclinicalapplication.Inthepreformedstudy,inordertosimplifythesignalinterpretation,thelow-frequencysinusoidialsignalswereusedtoonlyexciteS0andA0modesinfracturedlongbones.TheamplitudesofS0andA0modeswerenumericallyanalyzedwithvariationincrackwidthandfractureangle.Numericalsimulation,basedonthetwo-dimensionfinite-differencetime-domain(2D-FDTD)revealsthatbothS0andA0amplitudesdecreasewiththefracturewidening.However,theincreaseinfractureanglegraduallyenhancestheA0amplitude,whilewithrespecttotheS0mode,itsamplitudeshowsanon-monotonictrendtothevariationinfractureanglewithaturningpointaround45°.TheamplituderatiobetweenS0andA0canreflectthevariationsincrackwidthandfractureangles.ThesimulationillustratesthatultrasonicguidedS0andA0modesaresensitivetothedegreeofbothverticalandobliquefracturesinthelongcorticalbone.Thesefindingsmaybehelpfulforfracturesdiagnosisandhealingevaluationofthelongbone.