Assessment of bone quality and strength with new technologies

Current Opinion in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Obesity

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 474-482

  Engelke, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

bone geometry; bone quality; bone strength; finite element analysis; quantitative computed tomography

Indexed keywords

BONE DENSITY; BONE GEOMETRY; BONE METABOLISM; BONE MINERAL; BONE QUALITY; BONE STRENGTH; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICAL BONE; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FOREARM; HIP; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; IN VIVO STUDY; POROSITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SPINE; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; TECHNOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIBIA; TRABECULAR BONE;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; AGING; BONE DENSITY; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FOREARM; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; POSTMENOPAUSE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPINE; TIBIA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84869885170     PISSN: 1752296X     EISSN: 17522978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MED.0b013e32835a2609     Document Type: Review

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