Automated bone volume and thickness measurements in small animal whole-body MicroCT data

Molecular Imaging and Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 420-430

  Baiker, Martin ^a   Snoeks, Thomas J A ^a   Kaijzel, Eric L ^a   Que, Ivo ^a   Dijkstra, Jouke ^a   Lelieveldt, Boudewijn P F ^a,b   Löwik, Clemens W G M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Automated analysis; Bone volume; Cortical bone thickness; Follow up; Metastatic bone disease; MicroCT; Registration; Small animal; Tibia; Whole body

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BONE ATROPHY; BONE METASTASIS; BONE REMODELING; BONE THICKNESS; BONE VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; FEMALE; FIBULA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MOUSE; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; OSTEOLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TIBIA; WHOLE BODY CT;

ANIMALS; AUTOMATION; BONE AND BONES; CELL LINE, TUMOR; FEMALE; FEMUR; FIBULA; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; ORGAN SIZE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIBIA; WHOLE BODY IMAGING; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 84865496534     PISSN: 15361632     EISSN: 18602002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11307-011-0522-2     Document Type: Article

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