The peak CT number of profiles perpendicular to the vertebral cortical shell may be a useful indicator of the integrity of the cortical shell

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 487-491

  Dougherty, Geoffrey ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Shell thickness; Vertebral cortical shell; Vertebral strength

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE STRENGTH; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICAL BONE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THICKNESS; TRABECULAR BONE;

ADULT; AGED; BONE DENSITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0034491996     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4533(00)00066-7     Document Type: Article

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