The non-linear relationship between BUA and porosity in cancellous bone

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 2411-2420

  Hodgskinson, R ^a   Njeh, C F ^b   Whitehead, M A ^c   Langton, C M ^a  

^a Centre for Metabolic Bone Disease   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCELLOUS BONE; CATTLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NONHUMAN; OSTEOPOROSIS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; BONE CEMENTS; BONE DENSITY; CATTLE; HUMANS; LIPIDS; METHYLMETHACRYLATE; METHYLMETHACRYLATES; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; OSTEOPOROSIS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RESINS, PLANT; WATER;

EID: 0029909157     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/41/11/012     Document Type: Article

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