Morphometric texture analysis of spinal trabecular bone structure assessed using orthogonal radiographic projections

Medical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2037-2045

  Ouyang, Xiaolong ^a   Majumdar, Sharmila ^a,d   Link, Thomas M ^b   Lu, Ying ^a   Augat, Peter ^c   Lin, John ^a   Newitt, David ^a   Genant, Harry K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Morphometric measures; Osteoporosis; Radiographs; Texture analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELASTIC MODULI; FRACTAL DIMENSION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; RADIOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEXTURES;

BIOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MORPHOMETRIC MEASURES; OSTEOPOROSIS; QUANTITATIVE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; RADIOGRAPHS; TEXTURE ANALYSIS; TRABECULAR BONE NETWORKS; TRABECULAR BONE STRUCTURES;

BONE;

ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE STRUCTURE; CADAVER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRABECULAR BONE;

EID: 0031732703     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598391     Document Type: Article

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