quantitative ultrasound
Quantitative ultrasound tissue characterization in shoulder and thigh muscles – a new approach
... used quantitative ultrasound to characterize the various components of the muscle tissue ...The quantitative evaluation included the distribution of the grey-scale levels of the pixels in the images ...
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Persistence of back pain symptoms after pregnancy and bone mineral density changes as measured by quantitative ultrasound a two year longitudinal follow up study
... standard dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) [11,22] and quantitative ultrasound [13-16]. This BMD loss is thought largely to be reversible in the long run [23,24]. While the role of BMD changes in ...
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Use of quantitative ultrasound scans of the calcaneus to diagnose osteoporosis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
... DEXA is rarely used in the primary-care setting, where most regular patient contacts occur for individ- uals at high risk for osteoporosis, partly because of the need for bulky and expensive equipment. More re- cently, ...
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Association of physical exercise and calcium intake with bone mass measured by quantitative ultrasound
... status, quantitative ultra- sound (QUS) devices have both advantages and limita- ...International Quantitative Ultrasound Consensus Group has recom- mended QUS for bone mass screening ...calcaneus ...
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Quantitative ultrasound does not identify patients with an inflammatory disease at risk of vertebral deformities
... broadband ultrasound attenuation (BUA) (dB/MHz) and the speed of sound (SOS) (m/sec) in a fixed region of interest in the central calcaneal ..."quantitative ultrasound index" (QUI) or ...
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The effect of physical loading on calcaneus quantitative ultrasound measurement: a cross section study
... information on the microstructure and mechanical prop- erties of the bone which are also important factors of osteoporosis [4,5]. In recent years, quantitative ultrasound (QUS) has been recognized as a ...
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Current Trends in Osteoporosis Diagnostics: An Opportunity for Quantitative Ultrasound and Biomarkers
... QUS: Quantitative Ultrasound; SOS: Speed of Sound; BUA: Broadband Ultrasound Attenuation; PINP: Procollagen Type 1 N-Terminal Propeptide; CTX: C-terminal telopeptide, Collagen Type I; OC: ...
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The use of quantitative ultrasound to investigate bone strength in the facial skeleton
... The Omnisense 8000 (BeamMed Israel) is a multisite axial transmission quantitative ultrasound device that can be used to assess bone strength on multiple sites throughout the body. It features a probe that ...
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Multiparametric monitoring of chemotherapy treatment response in locally advanced breast cancer using quantitative ultrasound and diffuse optical spectroscopy
... (BOLD) contrast, have indicated some promising results to measure vascular oxygenation as a marker for treatment response in tumors [13]. BOLD-MRI detects T 2 -weighted signals from deoxy-hemoglobin, and a number of ...
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Agreement between calcaneal quantitative ultrasound and osteoporosis self-assessment tool for Asians in identifying individuals at risk of osteoporosis
... Background: Calcaneal quantitative ultrasound (QUS) is a useful tool in osteoporosis screening. However, QUS device may not be available at all primary health care settings. Osteoporosis self- assessment ...
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Usefulness of calcaneal quantitative ultrasound stiffness for the evaluation of bone health in HIV-1-infected subjects: comparison with dual X-ray absorptiometry
... calcaneal quantitative ultrasound index/stiffness and femoral/lumbar BMD values from DXA was ...calcaneal quantitative ultrasound index/stiffness and body mass index, higher CD4+ T-cell ...
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Awareness of osteoporosis and its relationship with calcaneus quantitative ultrasound in a large Chinese community population
... and quantitative ultrasound (US) values was also ...investigated. Quantitative US is a convenient method for estimation of bone mass and provides an index of bone strength, reflecting bone structure ...
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Predictive quantitative ultrasound radiomic markers associated with treatment response in head and neck cancer
... Aim: We aimed to identify quantitative ultrasound (QUS)-radiomic markers to predict radiotherapy re- sponse in metastatic lymph nodes of head and neck cancer. Materials & methods: Node-positive head and ...
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Quantitative Ultrasound at the Hand Phalanges in Adolescent Girls is Related to Their Overall Physical Fitness
... The skeletal status was assessed by QUS mea- surements at the proximal phalanges with the use of the DBM Sonic 1200 device (IGEA, Carpi, Ita- ly). The unit consists of two probes mounted on an electronic caliper, one ...
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Effects of plasma magnesium and prolactin on quantitative ultrasound measurements of heel bone among schizophrenic patients
... This study is designed to evaluate the association between BUA levels and different types of received antipsychotics classical or atypical, serum prolactin, calcium, phosphate, osteocalc[r] ...
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Quantitative ultrasound assessment of breast tumor response to chemotherapy using a multi-parameter approach
... hand, ultrasound is relatively inexpensive and safe and its imaging methods with respect to QUS rely on the inherent changes in tissue microstructure to generate tissue contrast, requiring no external contrast ...
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Evaluation of osteoporosis using calcaneal QUS and FRAX score as a screening tool in a semi urban tertiary care hospital of South India
... Calcaneal Quantitative Ultrasound (QUS) is an alternative which has to be evaluated in the context of use as a screening tool for low bone mineral ...
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Menstrual irregularity and bone mass in premenopausal women: Cross sectional associations with testosterone and SHBG
... on ultrasound) or 24 women who had SHBG levels less than 24 nmol/l (the lowest levels for fol- licular phase for premenopausal women) made little dif- ference to the ...between quantitative ...
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Key words
... (quantitative ultrasound assay – QUS), określając: prędkość przechodzenia ultradźwięków (SOS), szerokopasmowe tłumienie ultradźwięków (BUA) oraz współczynnik ...
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Prevalence and factors associated with low bone mineral density in Saudi women: a community based survey
... divided into five administrative regions and one major primary health care center (PHCC) was selected from each region. The catchment population of PHCC served as a cluster. It is assumed that on an average there is one ...
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