Intra-and inter-reader reliability of semi-automated quantitative morphometry measurements and vertebral fracture assessment using lateral scout views from computed tomography

Osteoporosis International

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2677-2688

  Kim, Y M ^a,b,c   Demissie, S ^d   Eisenberg, R ^a,b   Samelson, E J ^a,b,e   Kiel, D P ^a,b,e   Bouxsein, M L ^a,b  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c National Health Insurance Corporation   (South Korea)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Hebrew Senior Life   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Reliability; Semi automated vertebral morphometry; Vertebral fracture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; KAPPA STATISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPINAL FRACTURES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80755128937     PISSN: 0937941X     EISSN: 14332965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00198-011-1530-4     Document Type: Article

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