High-Resolution Imaging Techniques for the Assessment of Osteoporosis

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 601-621

  Krug, Roland ^a   Burghardt, Andrew J ^a   Majumdar, Sharmila ^a   Link, Thomas M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical bone imaging; High resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography (HR pQCT); Magnetic resonance imaging; Micro computed tomography; Trabecular bone imaging

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; BONE DENSITOMETRY; BONE DENSITY; BONE STRUCTURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICAL BONE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MORPHOMETRICS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATIENT POSITIONING; POROSITY; POSTMENOPAUSE OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TRABECULAR BONE; METHODOLOGY;

HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOPOROSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77954158675     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2010.02.015     Document Type: Review

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