Dual-Frequency Ultrasound-New Pulse-Echo Technique for Bone Densitometry

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1703-1708

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bone; Diagnostics; Osteoporosis; Soft tissue; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BACKSCATTERING; BONE; FRACTURE FIXATION; HISTOLOGY; POLYMERS; REFLECTION; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONICS;

BONE DENSITOMETRY; DIAGNOSTICS; DUAL-FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND; HUMAN TRABECULAR BONE; MEAN ERROR; OSTEOPOROSIS; PROXIMAL FEMUR; PULSE-ECHO TECHNIQUE; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUND; REFLECTION COEFFICIENTS; SOFT TISSUE; SOFT TISSUES; THROUGH-TRANSMISSION; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND BACKSCATTERING; ULTRASOUND DEVICES; ULTRASOUND MEASUREMENTS;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ELASTOMER;

ARTICLE; BONE DENSITOMETRY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ERROR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE; SOFT TISSUE; THICKNESS; TRABECULAR BONE; ULTRASOUND; VALIDATION STUDY;

ARTIFACTS; BONE AND BONES; BONE DENSITY; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; DENSITOMETRY; ELASTOMERS; FEMUR; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OSTEOPOROSIS; TIBIA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 52049085291     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2008.03.018     Document Type: Article

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