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Ultrasound Backscatter Measurements of Intact Human Proximal Femurs - Relationships of ultrasound parameters with tissue structure and mineral density.

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Author

  • M K H Malo
  • J Töyräs
  • J P Karjalainen
  • Hanna Isaksson
  • O Riekkinen
  • J S Jurvelin

Summary, in English

Ultrasound reflection and backscatter parameters are related to mechanical and structural properties of bone in vitro. However, the potential of ultrasound reflection and backscatter measurements has not been tested with intact human proximal femurs ex vivo. We hypothesize that ultrasound backscatter can be measured from intact femurs and that the measured backscattered signal is associated with cadaver age, bone mineral density (BMD) and trabecular bone microstructure. In this study, human femoral bones of 16 male cadavers (47.0±16.1years, range: 21-77 years) were investigated using pulse-echo ultrasound measurements at the femoral neck in the antero-posterior direction and at the trochanter major in the antero-posterior and latero-medial directions. Recently introduced ultrasound backscatter parameters, independent of cortical thickness, e.g., time slope of apparent integrated backscatter (TSAB) and mean of the backscatter difference technique (MBD) were obtained and compared with the structural properties of trabecular bone samples, extracted from the locations of ultrasound measurements. Moreover, more conventional backscatter parameters, e.g., apparent integrated backscatter (AIB) and frequency slope of apparent integrated backscatter (FSAB) were analysed. Bone mineral density of the intact femurs was evaluated using dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA). AIB and MDB measured from the femoral neck correlated significantly (p<0.01) with the neck BMD (R(2)=0.44 and 0.45), cadaver age (R(2)=0.61 and 0.41) and several structural parameters, e.g., bone volume fraction (R(2)=0.33 and 0.39, p<0.05 and p<0.01), respectively. To conclude, ultrasound backscatter parameters, measured from intact proximal femurs, are significantly related (p<0.05) to trabecular bone structural properties and mineral density.

Publishing year

2014

Language

English

Pages

240-245

Publication/Series

Bone

Volume

64

Issue

Online April 24, 2014

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Orthopedics

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1873-2763