In vivo assessment of trabecular bone architecture via three-dimensional tensor scale

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5369, Issue , 2004, Pages 750-760

  Saha, P Kumar ^a   Wehrli, Felix W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone volume fraction; Micro CT; Micro MRI; Structure; Tensor Scale; Topology; Trabecular bone

Indexed keywords

BONE VOLUME FRACTION; MICRO-CT; MICRO-MRI; TENSOR SCALE; TRABECULAR BONES;

ANISOTROPY; BONE; COMPUTER VISION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORTHOPEDICS;

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 3042637114     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.535352     Document Type: Conference Paper

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