In vivo assessment of trabecular bone structure at the distal radius from high-resolution magnetic resonance images

Medical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 585-592

  Gordon, Christopher L ^a,b   Webber, Colin E ^a   Christoforou, Nicholas ^a   Nahmias, Claude ^a  

^a HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

connectivity; high resolution MRI; osteoporosis; trabecular bone structure

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETISM;

CONNECTIVITY; CONNECTIVITY INDICES; HIGH RESOLUTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNERS; OSTEOPOROSIS; TRABECULAR BONE NETWORKS; TRABECULAR BONE STRUCTURES; TRABECULAR ORIENTATION;

BONE;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE STRUCTURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIUS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TRABECULAR BONE;

EID: 0030934375     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597987     Document Type: Article

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