supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11174060,11327405,11304043);the Science and Technology Support Program of Shanghai(13441901900);the Ph.D.Programs Foundation of the Ministry of Education of China(20130071110020);China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2012M520826)
Using ultrasonic guided waves to assess long bone fractures and fracture healing has become a promising diagnostic issue. But the multimode overlap of the guided waves challenges the quantitative evaluation and clinic...
supported by NSFC(11174060,11304043,11327405);the Ph.D.Programs Foundation of the Ministry of Education of China(20130071110020);the Key Science and Technology Program of Shanghai(13441901900)
The quadratic transformation method is proposed to estimate the trabecular spac- ing (Tb.Sp), an important index for osteoporosis diagnosis. The performance of this algorithm was investigated by scatter model, two-d...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11174060, 11327405, and 11504057);the Science and Technology Support Program of Shanghai (13441901900);the PhD Programs Foundation of the Ministry of Education of China (20130071110020);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2015M571490)
Ultrasonic backscatter technique has shown promise as a noninvasive cancellous bone assessment tool. A novel ultrasonic backscatter bone diagnostic (UBBD) instrument and an in vivo application for neonatal bone eval...
supported by the NSFC(11174060,11327405);the Science and Technology Support Program of Shanghai(13441901900);the Ph.D.Programs Foundation of the Ministry of Education of China(20110071130004,20130071110020)
Single pulse excited ultrasonic guided wave surfers high attenuation during the propagation in long bones.This results in small amplitude and low signal-to-noise ratio(SNR)of measured signals.Thus,the Barker code ex...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11174060,11327405);the Ph.D.Programs Foundation of the Ministry of Education of China(20110071130004,20130071110020);the Science and Technology Support Program of Shanghai(13441901900);the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University(NCET-10-0349)
In this study, ultrasonic backscattering signals in cancellous bones were obtained by finite difference time domain (FDTD) simulations, and the effect of trabecular material properties on these signals was analyzed....
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No. 11174060);the Ph.D. Programs Foundation of the Ministry of Education of China(Grant Nos. 20090071110066,20110071130004);the Key Science and Technology Program of Shanghai(Grant No. 09441900400);the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University(Grant No. NCET-10-0349)
This study examined how the signals of interest (SOI) effect on the backscattering measurement numerically based on 3-D finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. High resolution microstructure mappings of bovin...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No. 11174060);the PhD Programs Foundation of the Ministry of Education of China(Grant Nos. 20090071110066 and 20110071130004);the New Century Excellent Talents of the Ministry of Education of China(Grant No. NCET-10-0349)
Ultrasonic guided waves (GWs) can be used to evaluate long bones effectively because of the ability to provide the information of the whole bone. In this study, a joint spectrogram segmentation and ridge-extraction (J...