Quantitative ultrasound can assess living human cartilage

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 88, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2006, Pages 201-212

  Hattori, Koji ^a   Takakura, Yoshinori ^b   Tanaka, Yasuhito ^b   Habata, Takashi ^b   Kumai, Tsukasa ^b   Uematsu, Kota ^b   Sugimoto, Kazuya ^b   Ikeuchi, Ken ^b  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROGRAPHY; ARTHROSCOPY; CARTILAGE; CARTILAGE DEGENERATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FRICTION; HUMAN; KNEE RADIOGRAPHY; MICROCOMPUTER; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOCHONDRITIS DISSECANS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WEIGHT BEARING;

EID: 33845435502     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.F.00589     Document Type: Conference Paper

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