Hierarchical microimaging of bone structure and function

Nature Reviews Rheumatology

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 373-381

  Müller, Ralph ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; BONE; BONE DENSITY; BONE REGENERATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE MODEL; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BONE AND BONES; BONE DENSITY; BONE REGENERATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICE; OSTEOPOROSIS; RATS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70349577500     PISSN: 17594790     EISSN: 17594804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrrheum.2009.107     Document Type: Review

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