Long range node-strut analysis of trabecular bone microarchitecture

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 5003-5011

  Schmah, Tanya ^a   Marwan, Norbert ^b,c   Thomsen, Jesper Skovhus ^d   Saparin, Peter ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^e PAREXEL INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

histomorphometry; osteoporosis; pQCT; structure analysis; trabecular bone

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; BIOPSY; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION METHODS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NEODYMIUM ALLOYS; PIXELS; STRUTS; THULIUM ALLOYS; TOPOLOGY;

HISTOMORPHOMETRY; OSTEOPOROSIS; PQCT; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRABECULAR BONES;

BONE;

EID: 80052405858     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3622600     Document Type: Article

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