Accuracy of cortical and trabecular bone measurements with peripheral quantitative computed tomography (pQCT)

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2873-2883

  Augat, Peter ^a,b   Gordon, Christopher L ^a   Lang, Thomas F ^a   Iida, Hiroyuki ^a   Genant, Harry K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; CADAVER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; PHANTOM; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRABECULAR BONE;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

ALUMINUM; BONE AND BONES; BONE DENSITY; CADAVER; EVALUATION STUDIES; FOREARM; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; PHOSPHATES; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031715104     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/43/10/015     Document Type: Article

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