Evaluation of ultrasonic scattering in human cancellous bone by using a binary mixture model

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 29-40

  Guo, Xiasheng ^a   Zhang, Dong ^a   Gong, Xiufen ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BINARY MIXTURES; BONE; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROSITY;

RANDOM ISOTROPIC CONTINUUM; SCATTERING MODEL; THICKNESS DISTRIBUTIONS; VELOCITY FLUCTUATION;

ULTRASONIC SCATTERING;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CANCELLOUS BONE; EVALUATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION RELATED PHENOMENA; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRABECULAR BONE; ULTRASONIC SCATTERING; VELOCITY; ANISOTROPY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BONE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; STATISTICAL MODEL; ULTRASOUND;

ANISOTROPY; BONE AND BONES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OSTEOPOROSIS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 34247474485     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/1/003     Document Type: Article

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