Effects of Different Therapeutic Ultrasound Intensities on Fracture Healing in Rats

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 745-752

  Fung, Chak Hei ^a   Cheung, Wing Hoi ^a,c   Pounder, Neill M ^b   de Ana, F Javier ^b   Harrison, Andrew ^b   Leung, Kwok Sui ^a,c  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Smith and Nephew Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

^c SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Fracture healing; Intensity; LIPUS; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BONE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; RATS; ULTRASONICS;

BIOMECHANICAL TESTS; BONE VOLUME FRACTION; FRACTURE HEALING; INTENSITY; LIPUS; LOW-INTENSITY PULSED ULTRASOUND; SPRAGUE-DAWLEY RATS; THERAPEUTIC ULTRASOUND;

FRACTURE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FRACTURE HEALING; HIP RADIOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LOW INTENSITY PULSED ULTRASOUND; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THERAPY EFFECT; TORQUE; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

EID: 84859433562     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2012.01.022     Document Type: Article

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