The Founder's Lecture 2009: Advances in imaging of osteoporosis and osteoarthritis

Skeletal Radiology

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 943-955

  Link, Thomas Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; MRI; Osteoarthritis; Osteoporosis; Quantitative imaging

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; PLACEBO; SALCATONIN; TESTOSTERONE;

BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BONE DENSITY; BONE MASS; BONE STRENGTH; BONE STRUCTURE; CARTILAGE MATRIX; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG MECHANISM; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOPENIA; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELAXATION TIME; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; TRABECULAR BONE; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

BONE DENSITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; SPINAL FRACTURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77957847682     PISSN: 03642348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00256-010-0987-0     Document Type: Review

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