Relationships of quantitative ultrasound parameters with cancellous bone microstructure in human calcaneus in vitro

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1605-1612

  Wear, Keith A ^a   Nagaraja, Srinidhi ^a   Dreher, Maureen L ^a   Gibson, Sheng L ^b  

^a CENTER FOR DEVICES AND RADIOLOGICAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; BONE MINERAL DENSITY; BONE VOLUME FRACTION; CANCELLOUS BONE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; IN-VITRO; MULTIPLE REGRESSION MODEL; PREDICTIVE PERFORMANCE; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUNDS; SQUARED CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; ULTRASOUND PARAMETERS; UNIVARIATE; UNIVARIATE MODELS;

BACKSCATTERING; PHASE VELOCITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT;

BONE;

ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; CALCANEUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BONE DENSITY; CALCANEUS; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84857419599     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3672701     Document Type: Article

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