A comparison of the texture of computed tomography and projection radiography images of vertebral trabecular bone using fractal signature and lacunarity

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 313-321

  Dougherty, Geoffrey ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Fractal signature; Lacunarity; Osteoporosis; Texture; Trabecular bone architecture

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE STRENGTH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; TRABECULAR BONE;

BIOMECHANICS; BIOPHYSICS; BONE DENSITY; FRACTALS; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0034955450     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4533(01)00048-0     Document Type: Article

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