Ex vivo assessment of trabecular bone structure from three-dimensional projection reconstruction MR micro-images

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 967-977

  Accardo, Agostino ^a   Candido, Giulia ^a   Jellúš, Vladimír ^b   Toffanin, Renato ^a,c   Vittur, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF MEASUREMENT SCIENCE   (Slovakia)

^c Protos Research Institute   (Italy)

Author keywords

Image analysis; MR microscopy; Projection reconstruction; Structure; Trabecular bone

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; BONE; ELASTIC MODULI; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING;

MICROIMAGES;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FRACTURE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOPOROSIS; RISK FACTOR; SWINE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRABECULAR BONE;

EID: 0037684784     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2003.814527     Document Type: Article

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