Limitations of clinical CT in assessing cortical thickness and density

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 619-626

  Newman, D L ^a   Dougherty, G ^a   Al Obaid, A ^a   Al Hajrasy, H ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICAL BONE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THICKNESS;

ALGORITHMS; ALUMINUM; BIOPHYSICS; BONE AND BONES; BONE DENSITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OSTEOPOROSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031929482     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/43/3/013     Document Type: Article

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