Measurements of ultrasonic backscattered spectral centroid shift from spine in vivo - Methodology and preliminary results

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5035, Issue , 2003, Pages 411-413

  Wear, Keith A ^a   Garra, Brian S ^b   Pinet, Melanie C ^b   Felker, Steven ^b   Mai, Jonathan ^b  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; BONE; CORRELATION THEORY; DATA ACQUISITION; ULTRASONIC DIFFRACTION; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

BONE MINERAL DENSITY (BMD);

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0041356997     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.479899     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (2)

1. K. A. Wear, "Frequency dependence of ultrasonic backscatter from human trabecular bone: theory and experiment," J. Acoust. Soc. Am, vol. 106, no. 6, 3659-3664, Dec., 1999.
2. K. A. Wear, "Characterization of Trabecular Bone Using the Backscattered Spectral Centroid Shift," accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. Ultrason., Ferro. Freq. Cont.