Accuracy of ultrasound measurements for skull bone thickness using coded signals

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 733-740

  Tretbar, Steffen H ^a   Plinkert, Peter K ^b   Federspil, Philipp A ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic pulse compression; Biomedical ultrasonics; Coded excitation (CE); Intraoperative navigation; RF data signal processing; Skull bone; Ultrasound (US)

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PULSE COMPRESSION; BIOMEDICAL ULTRASONICS; CODED EXCITATION (CE); INTRAOPERATIVE NAVIGATION; RF DATA SIGNAL PROCESSING; SKULL BONE; ULTRASOUND (US);

ACOUSTIC WAVES; DATA PROCESSING; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; MEASUREMENTS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NAVIGATION; PULSE COMPRESSION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; TITANIUM; ULTRASONICS;

BONE;

FORMALDEHYDE; TITANIUM; WATER;

ARTICLE; CADAVER; CALVARIA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GOLD STANDARD; HEARING AID; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INFORMATION; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MEASUREMENT; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; SAMPLE; SKULL; SKULL SURGERY; THICKNESS; TRANSDUCER;

CEPHALOMETRY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SKULL;

EID: 65349088558     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2008.2011058     Document Type: Article

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