BoneJ: Free and extensible bone image analysis in ImageJ

Bone

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1076-1079

  Doube, Michael ^a   Klosowski, Michal M ^a   Arganda Carreras, Ignacio ^b   Cordelières, Fabrice P ^c   Dougherty, Robert P ^d   Jackson, Jonathan S ^e   Schmid, Benjamin ^f   Hutchinson, John R ^g   Shefelbine, Sandra J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^d OptiNav Inc   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^g ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bone; Image; Morphometry; Open source; Software; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MORPHOMETRICS; OSTEOCYTE; SYNCHROTRON; TRABECULAR BONE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OSTEOCYTES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; SYNCHROTRONS; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 78049438240     PISSN: 87563282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bone.2010.08.023     Document Type: Article

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