Cortical Thickness and Medullary Canal Dimensions of the Bone Phalanx Are Predicted by Quantitative Ultrasound Parameters

Journal of Clinical Densitometry

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 219-227

  Guglielmi, Giuseppe ^a,b   de Terlizzi, Francesca ^c   Scalzo, Giacomo ^a   Battista, Claudia ^b   Scillitani, Alfredo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^b CASA SOLLIEVO DELLA SOFFERENZA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c IGEA Biophysics Laboratory   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cortical thickness; medullary canal thickness; osteoporosis; phalanges; QUS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE STRUCTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK; FINGER PHALANX; FOREARM; HAND RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUMBAR SPINE; MEDULLARY CANAL THICKNESS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRABECULAR BONE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMUR; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL; YOUNG ADULT;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ADULT; AGED; BONE DENSITY; FEMALE; FEMUR; FINGER PHALANGES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LINEAR MODELS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951656808     PISSN: 10946950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocd.2010.01.002     Document Type: Article

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