Assessment of Fracture Healing in the Tibia Using the Impulse Response Method

Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 50-62

  Nakatsuchi, Yukio ^a   Tsuchikane, Akira ^a   Nomura, Akio ^b  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fracture healing; Impulse response method; Resonant frequency; Tibia

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIBIA FRACTURE; TIME; VIBRATION;

ACCELERATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIBIAL FRACTURES; TIME FACTORS; VIBRATION;

EID: 0029681729     PISSN: 08905339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005131-199601000-00008     Document Type: Article

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