Characterization of trabecular bone using the backscattered spectral centroid shift

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 402-407

  Wear, Keith A ^a  

^a CENTER FOR DEVICES AND RADIOLOGICAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; ATTENUATION; BONE; DISEASES; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

BACKSCATTERED SPECTRAL CENTROID SHIFT; OSTEOPOROSIS; TRABECULAR BONE; ULTRASONIC ATTENUATION;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BONE DENSITY; CADAVER; CALCANEUS; DENSITOMETRY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BONE DENSITY; CADAVER; CALCANEUS; DENSITOMETRY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED;

EID: 0037534355     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2003.1197963     Document Type: Article

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