Spatial variation of acoustic properties is related with mechanical properties of trabecular bone

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 6961-6968

  Riekkinen, O ^a,b   Hakulinen, M A ^a   Toyras J ^b   Jurvelin, J S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; BACKSCATTERING; CORRELATION METHODS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

APPARENT INTEGRATED BACKSCATTERING (AIB); INTEGRATED REFLECTION COEFFICIENT (IRC); LINEAR CORRELATION ANALYSIS; REGION OF INTEREST (ROI); ULTRASOUND PARAMETERS;

BONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BONE STRENGTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PARAMETRIC TEST; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; TRABECULAR BONE; ULTRASOUND;

ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMUR; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; TIBIA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 36348965398     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/23/013     Document Type: Article

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