Brief communication: Two and three-dimensional analysis of bone mass and microstructure in a bog body from the Iron Age

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 135, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 479-483

  Schilling, Arndt F ^a,c   Kummer, Tobias ^a   Marshall, Robert P ^a   Bauerochse, Andreas ^b   Jopp, Eilin ^a   Pueschel, Klaus ^a   Amling, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b Lower Saxony State Service for Cultural Heritage   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

CT; Bog body; Contact X ray; Moora; pQCT

Indexed keywords

ACIDITY; ARTICLE; BONE DEMINERALIZATION; BONE DENSITY; BONE MASS; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE STRUCTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IRON AGE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PEATLAND; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOFT TISSUE; TRABECULAR BONE;

BONE AND BONES; BONE DENSITY; FEMALE; FOSSILS; GERMANY; HUMANS; SOIL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 40949140461     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20751     Document Type: Article

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