Comprehensive in scope and thoroughly up-to-date, this volume presents the most recent experimental results and theoretical concepts in the quantitative ultrasound of bone. The text gives readers an extensive view of the mathematical and numerical models in order to characterize bone strength.

Quantitative ultrasound (QUS) of bone is a relatively recent research field. The research community is steadily growing, with interdisciplinary branches in acoustics, medical imaging, biomechanics, biomedical engineering, applied mathematics, bone biology and clinical sciences, resulting in significant achievements in new ultrasound technologies to measure bone, as well as models to elucidate the interaction and the propagation of ultrasonic wave in complex bone structures. Hundreds of articles published in specialists journals are accessible from the Web and from electronic libraries....