Bone fragility and imaging techniques

Clinical Cases in Mineral and Bone Metabolism

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 234-246

  D'Elia, Giovanni ^a   Caracchini, Giuseppe ^a   Cavalli, Loredana ^b   Innocenti, Paolo ^a  

^a AOUC ^*  (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bone architecture; Bone assessment; Bone fragility; High resolution imaging; Quantitative densitometry

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; BONE DENSITY; BONE FRAGILITY; BONE MASS; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE SCINTISCANNING; BONE STRENGTH; BONE TISSUE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOPOROSIS; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SHORT SURVEY; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

EID: 76749159031     PISSN: 17248914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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