Trabecular Bone Structure Analysis in the Limited Spatial Resolution Regime of In Vivo MRI

Academic Radiology

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1482-1493

  Magland, Jeremy F ^a   Wehrli, Felix W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

3D skeletonization; micro MRI; Trabecular bone; virtual bone biopsy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE BIOPSY; BONE PLATE; BONE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; IN VIVO STUDY; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRABECULAR BONE;

ALGORITHMS; BONE AND BONES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 55349100219     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2008.05.015     Document Type: Article

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