An investigation of pulse-timing techniques for broadband ultrasonic velocity determination in cancellous bone: A simulation study

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 2295-2308

  Le, Lawrence H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCELLOUS BONE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; THICKNESS; ULTRASOUND; VELOCITY;

BONE AND BONES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031854747     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/43/8/021     Document Type: Article

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