Digital radiology to study vertebral osteoporosis;Metodica di radiologia digitale per la valutazione dell'osteoporosi vertebrale

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 91, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 13-17

  Diacinti, Daniele ^a,b   Acca, Marco ^a   Tomei, Ernesto ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b POLICLINICO UMBERTO I   (Italy)

Author keywords

Vertebral column, fractures; Vertebral column, morphometry; Vertebral column, osteoporosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; PREMENOPAUSE; RADIOGRAPHY; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE FRACTURE;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ADULT; BONE DENSITY; FEMALE; FRACTURES, SPONTANEOUS; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; OBSERVER VARIATION; OSTEOPOROSIS; PREMENOPAUSE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINAL FRACTURES;

EID: 3643079190     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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