Allometric relationships between knee cartilage volume, thickness, surface area and body dimensions

Osteoarthritis and Cartilage

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 34-40

  Otterness, I G ^a   Le Graverand, M P H ^b   Eckstein, F ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

^c PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^d Chondrometrics GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Knee cartilage area; Knee cartilage volume; MRI; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLOMETRY; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY SURFACE; BODY WEIGHT; BONE GROWTH; BONE PLATE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CURVE FITTING; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNEE; KNEE RADIOGRAPHY; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; TISSUE GROWTH; VARIANCE;

EID: 38349130445     PISSN: 10634584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2007.05.010     Document Type: Article

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