Broadband ultrasound attenuation value dependence on bone width in vitro

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, , Citation Louie J Serpe and Jae-Young Rho 1996 Phys. Med. Biol. 41 197 DOI 10.1088/0031-9155/41/1/014

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1 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA

2 Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152, USA

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  1. Received 26 June 1995

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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the dependence of broadband ultrasound attenuation (BUA) on bone width using 16 samples of dense bovine cancellous bone. Both BUA and density were measured simultaneously so that a dependence of BUA on bone width independent of density could be found. BUA was found to increase significantly with bone width (3.6 dB , r = 0.92, p < 0.0001) and this increase could not be explained by associated changes in density.

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