Effect of voxel size on 3D micro-CT analysis of cortical bone porosity

Calcified Tissue International

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 211-219

  Cooper, David ^a   Turinsky, Andrei ^b   Sensen, Christoph ^b   Hallgrimsson, Benedikt ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

3D; Bone architecture structure; Bone density technology; Bone histology Histomorphometry; Cortical bone; Cortical porosity; Micro CT; Voxel size

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CORTICAL BONE; DIGITAL IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNIFICATION RADIOGRAPHY; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; STUDENT T TEST;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; BONE DENSITY; FEMALE; FEMUR; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICRORADIOGRAPHY; POROSITY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33947153119     PISSN: 0171967X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00223-005-0274-6     Document Type: Article

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