Can geometry-based parameters from pQCT and material parameters from quantitative ultrasound (QUS) improve the prediction of radial bone strength over that by bone mass (DXA)?

Osteoporosis International

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 375-381

  Hudelmaier, M ^a,b   Kuhn, V ^a,b   Lochmuller E M ^a   Well, H ^a,b   Priemel, M ^c   Link, T M ^d   Eckstein, F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^c University of Medical School Hamburg Eppendorf   (Germany)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cortical bone; Dual X ray absorptiometry; Mechanical competence; Peripheral quantitative CT; Quantitative ultrasound; Trabecular bone

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE;

AGED; ARM; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE DENSITY; BONE MASS; BONE MINERAL; BONE STRENGTH; BONE TISSUE; CADAVER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CORTICAL BONE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FALLING; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHESIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METAPHYSIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PARAMETER; PERIPHERAL QUANTITATIVE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIUS; RISK; SIMULATION; TRABECULAR BONE; ULTRASOUND; WEIGHT BEARING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE DENSITY; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; OSTEOPOROSIS; RADIUS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 2442455520     PISSN: 0937941X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00198-003-1551-8     Document Type: Article

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