Improved digital SEM of cancellous bone: Scanning direction of detection, through focus for in-focus and sample orientation

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 202, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 183-194

  Boyde, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3D imaging; Bone; Increased field depth; Osteoporosis; Scanning electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

BONE REMODELING; BONE STRUCTURE; CANCELLOUS BONE; ELECTRON BEAM; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THICKNESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE SLICE;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; OSTEOPOROSIS; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 0037322138     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-7580.2003.00146.x     Document Type: Review

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