Vertebral trabecular main direction can be determined from clinical CT datasets using the gradient structure tensor and not the inertia tensor-A case study

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1390-1396

  Wolfram, Uwe ^a   Schmitz, Bernd ^b   Heuer, Frank ^a   Reinehr, Michael ^a   Wilke, Hans Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anisotropic diffusion; Fabric tensor; Fracture risk; Patient specific; Vertebra

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; FABRIC TENSOR; FRACTURE RISK; PATIENT SPECIFIC; VERTEBRA;

BONE; FABRICS; FRACTURE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MINING; OPTICAL ANISOTROPY; SYSTEM THEORY;

TENSORS;

AGED; ARTICLE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE STRUCTURE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRABECULAR BONE; VERTEBRA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMECHANICS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPINE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67649502328     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2009.04.006     Document Type: Article

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