• DocumentCode
    3341700
  • Title

    Notice of Retraction
    The Effects of Season on Fetal Bone Development: A Study from Chinese Newborn Infants

  • Author

    Liao, X.P. ; Zhou, X.J. ; Yan, C.H. ; Zhang, Wei Li ; Yu, X.D.

  • Author_Institution
    Neonatal Div., Nanjing Med. Univ., Wuxi, China
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    10-12 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    Notice of Retraction

    After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE´s Publication Principles.

    We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.

    The presenting author of this paper has the option to appeal this decision by contacting TPII@ieee.org.

    This study compared bone status in infants at birth born in different seasons. Bone status was evaluated by tibial speed of sound (SOS) with a quantitative ultrasound (QUS) sonometer in 267 Chinese newborn infants. Significant differences in SOS were found in infants born in different seasons (F= 6.505, P<;0.001). Infants born in summer had the lowest SOS and infants born in winters had the highest SOS. The tibial SOS of infants born in winters was 2.0% higher than those born in summers after adjustment. The effects of season on fetal bone development were discussed.
  • Keywords
    biomedical equipment; bone; orthopaedics; paediatrics; Chinese newborn infants; fetal bone development; quantitative ultrasound sonometer; season effects; tibial sound speed; Bones; Minerals; Pediatrics; Pregnancy; Probes; Ultrasonic imaging; Ultrasonic variables measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, (iCBBE) 2011 5th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Wuhan
  • ISSN
    2151-7614
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5088-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/icbbe.2011.5781308
  • Filename
    5781308