The influence of cortical end-plate on broadband ultrasound attenuation measurements at the human calcaneus using scanning confocal ultrasound

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 3 I, 2005, Pages 1801-1807

  Xia, Yi ^a   Lin, Wei ^a   Qin, Yi Xian ^a  

^a St Francis Hospital The Heart Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ANALYTICAL MODELS; BROADBAND ULTRASOUND ATTENUATION (BUA); CORTICAL LAYERS; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUND (QUS) ASSESSMENT;

ULTRASONICS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BONE; BONE DISEASE; BROADBAND ULTRASOUND ATTENUATION; CADAVER; CALCANEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OSTEOLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUND; SCANNING CONFOCAL ULTRASOUND; SIMULATION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; ULTRASOUND; WAVEFORM;

BONE DENSITY; CADAVER; CALCANEUS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OSTEOPOROSIS; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 24944452284     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1979428     Document Type: Article

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