Effect of temperature on the longitudinal variability of quantitative ultrasound variables

Journal of Clinical Densitometry

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 436-444

  Paggiosi, Margaret A ^a,d   Blumsohn, Aubrey ^b   Barkmann, Reinhard ^c   Eastell, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^d NORTHERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Longitudinal; Monitoring; Precision; Quantitative ultrasound; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE DENSITOMETRY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKELETON; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 28044472027     PISSN: 10946950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/JCD:8:4:436     Document Type: Article

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