Does Quantitative Ultrasound of Bone Reflect More Bone Mineral Density Than Bone Microarchitecture?

Calcified Tissue International

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 60-67

  Cortet, B ^a,b   Boutry, N ^a,b   Dubois, P ^a   Legroux Gerot I ^a,b   Corten, A ^a,b   Marchandise, X ^a  

^a LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Bone microarchitecture; Bone mineral density; Bone texture analysis; Computed tomography; Quantitative ultrasound of bone

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE MINERAL; BONE STRUCTURE; CALCANEUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DENSITOMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRABECULAR BONE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE AND BONES; BONE DENSITY; CALCANEUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0842283936     PISSN: 0171967X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00223-002-2113-3     Document Type: Article

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