Reproducibility of techniques using Archimedes' principle in measuring cancellous bone volume

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 63-68

  Zou, L ^a,b   Bloebaum, R D ^a,b   Bachus, K N ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancellous bone; Reproducibility; Volume measurements; Water displacement volumetry

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BUOYANCY; CADAVERIC EXPERIMENTS; DENSITY OF LIQUIDS; HELIUM; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; POROUS MATERIALS; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; VOLUME FRACTION; VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

ARCHIMEDES' PRINCIPLE; MICROPYCNOMETER;

BONE;

ARTICLE; CANCELLOUS BONE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BONE AND BONES; DOGS; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMUR; HELIUM; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WATER;

EID: 0030973889     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4533(96)00045-8     Document Type: Article

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