Measuring skeletal changes with calcaneal ultrasound imaging in healthy children and adults: The influence of size and location of the region of interest

Osteoporosis International

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 970-979

  Van Den Bergh, J P W ^a   Noordam, C ^a   Thijssen, J M ^a   Otten, B J ^a   Smals, A G H ^a   Hermus, A R M M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Broadband ultrasound attenuation (BUA); Precision errors; Quantitative ultrasound (QUS); Speed of sound (SOS); Trend assessment interval

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE STRUCTURE; CALCANEUS; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CALCANEUS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0035658172     PISSN: 0937941X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001980170027     Document Type: Article

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