Classification of trabeculae into three-dimensional rodlike and platelike structures via local inertial anisotropy

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 3280-3291

  Vasilić, Branimir ^a   Rajapakse, Chamith S ^a   Wehrli, Felix W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

MRI; Osteoporosis; Structure analysis; Trabecular bone

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TOPOLOGY;

MICRO ARCHITECTURES; ORIENTATION ENTROPIES; OSTEOPOROSIS; PLATE-LIKE STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL PARAMETERS; TRABECULAR BONE MICROARCHITECTURE; TRABECULAR BONES;

BONE;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE STRUCTURE; BONE TISSUE; CYTOARCHITECTURE; ENTROPY; FRACTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOGONADISM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOCAL INERTIAL ANISOTROPY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NOISE; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PLATELIKE STRUCTURE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODLIKE STRUCTURE; ROTATION; SURFACE TO CURVE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE STRUCTURE; TRABECULAR BONE;

EID: 67649598595     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3140582     Document Type: Article

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