The effect of voxel size on high-resolution peripheral computed tomography measurements of trabecular and cortical bone microstructure

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1893-1903

  Tjong, Willy ^a   Kazakia, Galateia J ^a   Burghardt, Andrew J ^a   Majumdar, Sharmila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cortical bone; HR pQCT; micro CT; resolution; trabecular bone

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PORE STRUCTURE; POROSITY;

ACCURATE QUANTIFICATIONS; CORTICAL BONE; HR-PQCT; MICRO CT; MICROSTRUCTURAL ASSESSMENTS; QUANTITATIVE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; STRUCTURE EXTRACTION; TRABECULAR BONES;

BONE;

EID: 84861612019     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3689813     Document Type: Article

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