Monitoring Bone Growth Using Quantitative Ultrasound in Comparison with DXA and pQCT

Journal of Clinical Densitometry

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 295-301

  Wang, Qingju ^a,b   Nicholson, Patrick H F ^b   Timonen, Jussi ^b   Alen, Markku ^b   Moilanen, Petro ^b   Suominen, Harri ^b   Cheng, Sulin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bone; DXA; growth; pQCT; quantitative ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BONE DENSITOMETRY; BONE GROWTH; BONE METABOLISM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK; HUMAN; LUMBAR SPINE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SCHOOL CHILD; ULTRASOUND;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BONE DENSITY; CHILD; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 42749096421     PISSN: 10946950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocd.2007.10.003     Document Type: Article

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