Assessment of material, structural, and functional properties of the human skeleton by pQCT systems

Current Osteoporosis Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 37-41

  Roldán, Emilio J A ^a   Bogado, César E ^a  

^a Instituto de Investigaciones Metabolicas   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTIOMETRY; BONE DENSITY; BONE EXAMINATION; BONE FRAGILITY; BONE MINERALIZATION; BONE STRENGTH; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICAL BONE; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PERIPHERAL QUANTITATIVE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; POROSITY; RADIATION SAFETY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SOFT TISSUE; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TRABECULAR BONE;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; BIOMECHANICS; BONE AND BONES; BONE DENSITY; HUMANS; OSTEOPOROSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70349745539     PISSN: 15441873     EISSN: 15442241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11914-009-0007-2     Document Type: Review

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