Analysis of frequency dependence of ultrasonic backscatter coefficient in cancellous bone

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 4083-4090

  Ta, Dean ^a   Wang, Weiqi ^a   Huang, Kai ^a   Wang, Yuanyuan ^a   Le, Lawrence H ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MINERAL DENSITIES; CANCELLOUS BONES; CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCES; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; NON-LINEAR FUNCTIONS; OSTEOPOROTIC FRACTURES; SCATTERING MECHANISMS; ULTRASONIC BACKSCATTERS;

BACKSCATTERING; PROGRAMMING THEORY; RISK MANAGEMENT; SCATTERING; ULTRASONIC SCATTERING; ULTRASONICS;

BONE;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; BONE DENSITY; CALCANEUS; CATTLE; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIBIA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60049099613     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3001705     Document Type: Article

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