Technical considerations for microstructural analysis of human trabecular bone from specimens excised from various skeletal sites

Calcified Tissue International

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 15-22

  Nagele E ^a   Kuhn, V ^a   Vogt, H ^a   Link, T M ^b   Muller R ^c   Lochmuller E M ^a   Eckstein, F ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d Paracelsas Priv Medical University   (Austria)

Author keywords

Human; Microarchitecture; Microcomputed tomography; Microstructure; Trabecular bone

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE STRUCTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKELETON; TRABECULAR BONE;

EID: 3342984675     PISSN: 0171967X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00223-004-0151-8     Document Type: Article

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