Beam hardening artifacts in micro-computed tomography scanning can be reduced by X-ray beam filtration and the resulting images can be used to accurately measure BMD

Bone

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1104-1116

  Meganck, Jeffrey A ^a,b   Kozloff, Kenneth M ^a,b   Thornton, Michael M ^c   Broski, Stephen M ^a   Goldstein, Steven A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ash fraction; Beam hardening; Bone densitometry; Bone mineral density; Micro computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; ASH; BONE; BONE DENSITOMETRY; BONE MINERALIZATION; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; FEMUR; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SAMPLE SIZE; TRABECULAR BONE;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; BONE AND BONES; BONE DENSITY; CALCIUM; DENSITOMETRY; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY; X-RAYS;

EID: 70350225708     PISSN: 87563282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bone.2009.07.078     Document Type: Article

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