METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ESTIMATING MINERAL DENSITY OF A BONE Russian patent published in 2016 - IPC A61B8/08 

FIELD: medical equipment.

SUBSTANCE: group of inventions relates to medical equipment, namely to devices for estimating mineral density of a bone. Method of estimating mineral density of the first bone of a patient, wherein the first bone is associated with a femoral head, neck or lumbar spinal, comprises the following steps: determining with a pulse echo method a first parameter, which is related to a property change in an ultrasonic measurement signal; determining a set of second parameters which include the age and weight of the patient and using the set of the second parameters determining mineral density of the first bone of the patient. Device for determining mineral density of a patient's first bone used for this method comprises an ultrasonic transmitter and an ultrasonic receiver. Processor to estimate mineral density of a patient's bone uses a computer software program product for carrying out the steps of the method. AND

EFFECT: invention increases the quality of estimating mineral density of a bone and minimises the dose of radiation.

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