Noninvasive imaging of bone microarchitecture

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1240, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 77-87

  Patsch, Janina M ^a,b   Burghardt, Andrew J ^a   Kazakia, Galateia ^a   Majumdar, Sharmila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bone microarchitecture; Bone quality; High resolution magnetic resonance imaging (HR MRI); High resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography (HR pQCT)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BONE BIOPSY; BONE DENSITY; BONE MICROARCHITECTURE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE STRUCTURE; CORTICAL BONE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HIGH RESOLUTION NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; ILIAC CREST; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPECTROSCOPY; TRABECULAR BONE;

EID: 83755182735     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06282.x     Document Type: Article

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