Technical note: An R program for automating bone cross section reconstruction

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 142, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 665-669

  Sylvester, Adam D ^a,b   Garofalo, Evan ^b   Ruff, Christopher ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Long bones; R statistical freeware; Section properties

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAPHYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; FEMUR; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIBIA;

FEMUR; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; TIBIA;

EID: 77954490073     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21299     Document Type: Article

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