Bone quantitative ultrasound
Matsukawa, M.
Clinical Calcium 26(1): 57-64
2016
ISSN/ISBN: 0917-5857 PMID: 26728531 Document Number: 685845
The conventional ultrasonic bone densitometry system can give us information of bone as ultrasonic wave velocity and attenuation. However, the data reflect both structural and material properties of bone. In order to focus only on the bone matrix properties without the effect of bone structure, studies of microscopic Brillouin scattering technique are introduced. The wave velocity in a trabecula was anisotropic and depended on the position and structure of the cancellous bone. The glycation also affected on the wave velocities in bone. As a new bone quality, the piezoelectricity of bone is also discussed.