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The aim of the research is to identify new and reliable diagnostics for osteoporosis. Most skeletal regions are biphasic and consist of solid and porous segments. We propose to use vibrational techniques to establish the strength of a whole bone. The fist step is to evaluatae the vibrational response of solid and porous segments from the vibrational assessment of whole bone. This is done via a inverse scattering techniques. The next is to relate the vibrational response of each segment to its strength. We have already developed methods for this part.
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