BROAD-BAND ULTRASOUND ATTENUATION VALUE DEPENDENCE ON BONE WIDTH IN-VITRO

Authors
SERPE LJ RHO JY
Citation
Lj. Serpe et Jy. Rho, BROAD-BAND ULTRASOUND ATTENUATION VALUE DEPENDENCE ON BONE WIDTH IN-VITRO, Physics in medicine and biology, 41(1), 1996, pp. 197-202
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Radiology,Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Journal title
Physics in medicine and biology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319155
Volume
41
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Pages
197 - 202
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9155(1996)41:1<197:BUAVDO>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine the dependence of broadband u ltrasound attenuation (BUA) on bone width using 16 samples of dense bo vine cancellous bone. Both BUA and density were measured simultaneousl y so that a dependence of BUA on bone width independent of density cou ld be found. BUA was found to increase significantly with bone width ( 3.6 dB MHz(-1) mm(-1) r = 0.92, p < 0.0001) and this increase could no t be explained by associated changes in density.