A new approach for the estimation of intervertebral disc volume using the Cavalieri principle and computed tomography images

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 282-288

  Bilgic, Sait ^a   Sahin, Bunyamin ^a,d   Sonmez, Osman Fikret ^b   Odaci, Ersan ^a   Colakoglu, Serdar ^a   Kaplan, Suleyman ^a   Ergur, Hayati ^c  

^a ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Hosp of Social Insurance Foundation   (Turkey)

^c Akademi Radiological Diagn Centre   (Turkey)

^d NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cavalieri principle; Computed tomography; Intervertebral disc; Stereology; Volume estimation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BONE MASS; CADAVER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OBSERVER VARIATION; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STEREOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; THICKNESS; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; CADAVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; ORGAN SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 18844377470     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2004.08.001     Document Type: Article

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