IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control. 2022 Oct;69(10):2875-2895. doi: 10.1109/TUFFC.2022.3197095. Epub 2022 Sep 27.
The use of guided wave ultrasonography as a means to assess cortical bone quality has been a significant practice in bone quantitative ultrasound for more than 20 years. In this article, the key developments within the technology of ultrasonic guided waves (UGW) in long bones during the past decade are documented. The covered topics include data acquisition configurations available for measuring bone guided waveforms, signal processing techniques applied to bone UGW, numerical modeling of ultrasonic wave propagation in cortical long bones, formulation of inverse approaches to extract bone properties from observed ultrasonic signals, and clinical studies to establish the technology's application and efficacy. The review concludes by highlighting specific challenging problems and future research directions. In general, the primary purpose of this work is to provide a comprehensive overview of bone guided-wave ultrasound, especially for newcomers to this scientific field.
超声导波技术在皮质骨定量超声中已经有 20 多年的应用历史，作为一种评估皮质骨质量的手段。本文记录了过去十年中长骨超声导波技术的主要发展。涵盖的主题包括用于测量骨导波的可用数据采集配置、应用于骨导波的信号处理技术、皮质长骨中超声波传播的数值建模、从观测到的超声信号中提取骨特性的逆方法的制定，以及用于确立该技术的应用和功效的临床研究。本文最后强调了具体的挑战性问题和未来的研究方向。总的来说，这项工作的主要目的是提供一个关于骨导波超声的全面概述，特别是针对该科学领域的新手。
