In vivo assessment of trabecular bone structure at the distal radius from high-resolut ion computed tomography images

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 495-508

  Gordon, Christopher L ^a   Webber, Colin E ^a   Adachi, Jonathan D ^b   Christoforou, Nicholas ^a  

^a HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE STRUCTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIUS; TRABECULAR BONE;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; BIOPHYSICS; BONE AND BONES; BONE DENSITY; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIUS; RADIUS FRACTURES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0029933445     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/41/3/011     Document Type: Article

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