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1. 发明公开

EP1009286A4 ULTRASONIC BONE ASSESSMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS 失效
标题翻译：方法和设备对骨骼的研究利用超声
公开(公告)号：EP1009286A4
公开(公告)日：2000-06-21
申请号：EP97940810
申请日：1997-09-04
申请人： ORTHOLOGIC CORP
发明人： CHIABRERA ALESSANDRO , KAUFMAN JONATHON J
IPC分类号： A61B8/08
CPC分类号： A61B8/0875
摘要： A method for the assessment of various properties of bone is provided. The method includes applying a pair of ultrasound transducers to skin on opposite sides of the bone and generating an ultrasound signal, and directing the signal through both the bone and a known medium to obtain a bone output singal and a reference signal. The method further includes establishing a set of parameters associated with the bone output signal and a set of parameters associated with the reference signal, and then subjeting the two sets of parameters to comparative analysis in order to obtain the desired bone property. An apparatus for the assessment of various properties of bone is also provided. The apparatus includes a pair of ultrasound transducers (16, 18) which may be single element transducers or array transducers in any combination. The apparatus further includes various computer hardware components (20, 22) and computer software (34) for generating and directing the ultrasound signal, establishing the parameter sets and performing the comparative analysis.

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