A backscatter difference technique for ultrasonic bone assessment

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 132, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 4069-4076

  Hoffmeister, Brent K ^a   Wilson, Anne R ^a   Gilbert, Matthew J ^a   Sellers, Mark E ^a  

^a RHODES COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTER SIGNALS; BONE ASSESSMENT; BROADBAND TRANSDUCERS; CANCELLOUS BONE; CENTER FREQUENCY; GOOD CORRELATIONS; MULTIPLE MEASUREMENTS; POWER-SPECTRA; QUASI-LINEAR FUNCTIONS; ULTRASONIC BACKSCATTER;

BACKSCATTERING; BONE;

ULTRASONIC TESTING;

AGED; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; FEMUR HEAD; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANISOTROPY; FEMALE; FEMUR HEAD; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 84870939832     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4763992     Document Type: Article

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