Micro-CT based quantification of non-mineralized tissue on cultured hydroxyapatite scaffolds

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part A

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1012-1021

  Hilldore, Amanda ^a   Wojtowicz, Abigail ^b   Johnson, Amy Wagoner ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MC 244 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bone tissue engineering; Image analysis; Micro computed tomography; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

BONE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HYDROXYAPATITE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SCAFFOLDS; VOLUME FRACTION;

BONE TISSUE ENGINEERING; CURVE INTEGRATION METHOD; GAUSSIAN CURVES; INTERSECTION THRESHOLDING METHODS;

TISSUE ENGINEERING;

HYDROXYAPATITE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; HISTOGRAM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STEM CELL; TISSUE CULTURE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BONE AND BONES; BONE MARROW CELLS; CELL LINE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DURAPATITE; MATERIALS TESTING; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELLS; OSSEOINTEGRATION; STROMAL CELLS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34548190513     PISSN: 15493296     EISSN: 15524965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.31264     Document Type: Article

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