Structure and function of vertebral trabecular bone

Spine

Volumn 22, Issue 24, 1997, Pages 2823-2833

  Smit, Theo H ^a   Odgaard, Anders ^c   Schneider, Erich ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Facet joints; Intervertebral disc; Lumbar spine; Trabecular bone; Vertebra; Wolff's Law

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MECHANICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SURGICAL ANATOMY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRABECULAR BONE; VERTEBRA BODY; VOLUMETRY;

ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; BONE DENSITY; BONE MATRIX; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; STRESS, MECHANICAL; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 0031418593     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-199712150-00005     Document Type: Article

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