Correlation of Tibial Low-Frequency Ultrasound Velocity with Femoral Radiographic Measurements and BMD in Elderly Women

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 903-911

  Määttä, Mikko ^a   Moilanen, Petro ^b   Nicholson, Patrick ^b   Cheng, Sulin ^b   Timonen, Jussi ^b   Jämsä, Timo ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^c OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Fracture risk; Guided waves; Lamb waves; Osteoporosis; Postmenopausal; Quantitative ultrasound; Speed of sound

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE RISK; GUIDED WAVES; LAMB WAVES; OSTEOPOROSIS; POSTMENOPAUSAL; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUND; SPEED OF SOUND;

BONE; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; MINERALS; MINING; SILICATE MINERALS; ULTRASONIC TESTING; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONIC WAVES; VELOCITY; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

ULTRASONICS;

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVICE; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMUR; GEOMETRY; HIP RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SOUND TRANSMISSION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TIBIA; ULTRASOUND; VELOCITY; WAVEFORM;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTHROPOMETRY; BONE DENSITY; FEMALE; FEMUR; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIBIA;

EID: 67349124360     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2008.12.003     Document Type: Article

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