Relationships of trabecular bone structure with quantitative ultrasound parameters: In vitro study on human proximal femur using transmission and backscatter measurements

Bone

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1193-1202

  Padilla, F ^a,b   Jenson, F ^a,b   Bousson, V ^c   Peyrin, F ^d,e   Laugier, P ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UPMC Univ Paris 06   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^e EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

Author keywords

Femur; Microarchitecture; Microtomography; Qualitative ultrasound (QUS); Trabecular bone

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMUR; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; TRABECULAR BONE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASOUND;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE DENSITY; FEMALE; FEMUR; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 43149110367     PISSN: 87563282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bone.2007.10.024     Document Type: Article

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