Ultrasonic scattering study of cancellous bone for osteoporosis diagnosis

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 1: Regular Papers and Short Notes and Review Papers

Volumn 35, Issue 5 B, 1996, Pages 3156-3162

  Kitamura, Kiyotaka ^a   Pan, Haitao ^a   Ueha, Sadayuki ^a   Kimura, Shigeo ^b   Ohtomo, Naoki ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Aloka Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bone disease; Cancellous bone; Osteoporosis; Scattering function; Trabecular bone; Ultrasonic diagnosis; Ultrasound scattering property

Indexed keywords

BONE; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; ESTIMATION; EXPERIMENTS; X RAYS;

BONE DISEASE; CANCELLOUS BONE; OSTEOPOROSIS; SCATTERING FUNCTION; ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSIS;

ULTRASONIC SCATTERING;

EID: 0030148498     PISSN: 00214922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/jjap.35.3156     Document Type: Article

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