Anisotropy of collagen fibre alignment in bovine cartilage: comparison of polarised light microscopy and spatially resolved diffusion-tensor measurements

Osteoarthritis and Cartilage

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 689-697

  de Visser, S K ^a   Bowden, J C ^a   Wentrup Byrne, E ^a   Rintoul, L ^a   Bostrom, T ^a   Pope, J M ^a   Momot, K I ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Birefringence; Collagen fibre orientation; Diffusion tensor imaging; Fibre alignment order; Polarised light microscopy

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COW; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISPERSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; TISSUE STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; CATTLE; COLLAGEN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMUR; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION;

EID: 44449169789     PISSN: 10634584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2007.09.015     Document Type: Article

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