Comparison of Cortical Bone Measurements Between pQCT and HR-pQCT

Journal of Clinical Densitometry

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 275-281

  Lala, Deena ^a   Cheung, Angela M ^b,d   Gordon, Chris ^c   Giangregorio, Lora ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Peripheral quantitative computed tomography; Reliability; Tibia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICAL BONE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GOLD STANDARD; HIGH RESOLUTION PERIPHERAL QUANTITATIVE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEASUREMENT; PERIPHERAL QUANTITATIVE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIBIA;

BONE DENSITY; HUMANS; OSTEOPOROSIS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; TIBIA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84864306518     PISSN: 10946950     EISSN: 15590747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocd.2012.01.005     Document Type: Article

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