Influence of overlying soft tissues on trabecular bone acoustic measurement at various ultrasound frequencies

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1073-1083

  Riekkinen, Ossi ^a,b   Hakulinen, Mikko A ^b   Timonen, Matti ^b   Töyräs, Juha ^a   Jurvelin, Jukka S ^a,b  

^a KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Diagnostics; DXA; Human; Mechanical properties; Osteoporosis; Simulation; Soft tissue; Trabecular bone; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; SIMULATION; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

DIAGNOSTICS; DXA; HUMAN; OSTEOPOROSIS; SOFT TISSUES; TRABECULAR BONE;

BONE;

ACOUSTICS; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SOFT TISSUE; TRABECULAR BONE; ULTRASOUND;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BONE AND BONES; BONE DENSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; FEMUR; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; SWINE; TIBIA; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 33745613227     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2006.03.012     Document Type: Article

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