Model-based estimation of quantitative ultrasound variables at the proximal femur

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1304-1315

  Dencks, Stefanie ^b   Barkmann, Reinhard ^a,b   Padilla, Frederic ^c   Laugier, Pascal ^c   Schmitz, Georg ^a,d   Gluer, Claus C ^b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ALGORITHMS; BONE; ESTIMATION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FRACTURE FIXATION; GARNETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENTS; RISK PERCEPTION; SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCHES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; STANDARDS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONIC WAVES; ULTRASONICS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

(P ,P ,T) MEASUREMENTS; BONE MINERAL DENSITY (BMD); BROADBAND ULTRASOUND ATTENUATION (BUA); CONVENTIONAL ALGORITHMS; FRACTURE RISKS; MODEL BASED ESTIMATION; MULTI-PATH TRANSMISSION; NEW ALGORITHM; OSTEOPOROTIC; PERIPHERAL (SPI); PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; PROXIMAL FEMUR; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUND (QUS);

MODAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BONE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITOMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMUR; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; BONE AND BONES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITOMETRY; FEMUR; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 44949141995     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2008.793     Document Type: Article

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