Effects of ultrasound frequency, temporal sampling frequency, and spatial sampling step on the quantitative ultrasound parameters of articular cartilage

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1383-1393

  Kaleva, Erna ^a,b   Töyräs, Juha ^a,b   Jurvelin, Jukka S ^a   Virén, Tuomas ^a   Saarakkala, Simo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICULAR CARTILAGES; CARTILAGE SAMPLES; DIAGNOSTIC INFORMATION; FOCUSED TRANSDUCER; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; LOW FREQUENCY; MICRO TOPOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUNDS; REFLECTION PARAMETERS; SIMULTANEOUS ANALYSIS; SPATIAL SAMPLING; SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS; SURFACE DEGRADATION; TEMPORAL SAMPLING; ULTRASONIC ANALYSIS; ULTRASOUND FREQUENCY; ULTRASOUND ROUGHNESS INDEX; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BONE; CARTILAGE; LIGAMENTS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; REFLECTION; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; CATTLE; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATELLA; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SURFACE PROPERTY; TIBIA; TRANSDUCER;

ANIMALS; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; CATTLE; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PATELLA; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIBIA; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 68249159437     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2009.1194     Document Type: Article

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