Dependence of trabecular structure on bone quantity: A comparison between osteoarthritic and non-pathological bone

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 632-639

  Tassani, Simone ^a   Particelli, Francesca ^a   Perilli, Egon ^b,c   Traina, Francesco ^a   Baruffaldi, Fabio ^a   Viceconti, Marco ^a  

^a RIZZOLI ORTHOPAEDIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b Bone and Joint Research Laboratory   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bone volume fraction; Femoral head; Micro CT; Osteoarthritic bone; Trabecular orientation; Trabecular structure

Indexed keywords

BONE VOLUME FRACTION; FEMORAL HEAD; MICRO-CT; OSTEOARTHRITIC BONE; TRABECULAR ORIENTATION; TRABECULAR STRUCTURE;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; TENSORS; TISSUE; TITRATION; VOLUME FRACTION;

BONE;

ADULT; AGED; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BONE STRUCTURE; CANCELLOUS BONE; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FEMUR HEAD; HUMAN; MALE; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MORPHOMETRICS; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THICKNESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRABECULAR BONE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANISOTROPY; BONE AND BONES; BONE DENSITY; FEMALE; FEMUR HEAD; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79959332075     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: 18791271     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2011.01.010     Document Type: Article

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