Equivalence of mean intercept length and gradient fabric tensors - 3d study

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 598-604

  Tabor, Zbisław ^a  

^a CRACOW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Gray level; Image analysis; Osteoporosis; Structural anisotropy; Trabecular bone

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE METHODS; ARTIFICIAL STRUCTURES; COEFFICIENT OF CORRELATION; CT IMAGE; DEGREE OF ANISOTROPY; FABRIC TENSORS; GOOD CORRELATIONS; GRAY-LEVEL; MEAN INTERCEPT LENGTH; OSTEOPOROSIS; STRONG CORRELATION; STRUCTURAL ANISOTROPY; STRUCTURE TENSORS; TRABECULAR BONES;

ANISOTROPY; BONE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

TENSORS;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; GRADIENT FABRIC TENSOR; MEAN INTERCEPT LENGTH; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MORPHOMETRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIUS; TRABECULAR BONE;

ANISOTROPY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; RADIUS; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84861338379     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: 18734030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2011.09.006     Document Type: Article

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