Vertebral body bone strength: The contribution of individual trabecular element morphology

Osteoporosis International

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1957-1965

  Parkinson, I H ^a,b   Badiei, A ^a,b   Stauber, M ^a,b,c   Codrington, J ^b   Muller R ^c   Fazzalari, N L ^d  

^a HANSON INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d B cube AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Bone strength decomposition; Spatial; Trabecular bone; Trabecular bone plates rods

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BONE STRENGTH; BONE STRUCTURE; CADAVER; COMPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRABECULAR BONE; VERTEBRA BODY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; BONE DENSITY; CADAVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STRESS, MECHANICAL; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84863601684     PISSN: 0937941X     EISSN: 14332965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00198-011-1832-6     Document Type: Article

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