Appropriateness of internal digital phantoms for monitoring the stability of the UBIS 5000 quantitative ultrasound device in clinical trials

Osteoporosis International

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 435-445

  Hans, D ^a   Alekxandrova, I ^a   Njeh, C ^b   Le Floch, C ^c   Conicella, G ^a   Laugier, P ^d   Slosman, D O ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c IRIS Institut de Recherches Internationales Servier   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Internal digital phantoms; Monitoring; Quantitative ultrasound device; UBIS 5000

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MONITORING; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; ULTRASOUND; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AGED; BONE DENSITY; CLINICAL TRIALS; ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 16844387286     PISSN: 0937941X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00198-004-1683-5     Document Type: Article

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