Effect of Bone Marrow on Acoustic Properties of Trabecular Bone - 3D Finite Difference Modeling Study

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 308-318

  Aula, A S ^a   Toyras J ^a,b   Hakulinen, M A ^b   Jurvelin, J S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bone marrow; Finite difference; Modeling; Trabecular bone; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BONE MARROW; FINITE DIFFERENCE; MODELING; TRABECULAR BONE; ULTRASOUND;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ACOUSTICS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONICS;

BONE;

WATER;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; CADAVER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KNEE; ORGAN SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRABECULAR BONE; VELOCITY;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ADULT; AGED; BONE AND BONES; BONE DENSITY; BONE MARROW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; KNEE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; SCATTERING, RADIATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 58249126231     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2008.08.002     Document Type: Article

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