The potential of multi-slice computed tomography based quantification of the structural anisotropy of vertebral trabecular bone

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 7-15

  Tabor, Zbisław ^a   Petryniak, Rafał ^b   Latała, Zbigniew ^b   Konopka, Tomasz ^c  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b CRACOW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

Author keywords

CT; GST; Image registration; MIL; Spiral CT; Trabecular bone

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL DATA; CLINICAL CT; CT DATA; CT IMAGE; GRAY-LEVEL; GST; LOW QUALITIES; MEAN INTERCEPT LENGTH; MIL; MULTISLICE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; POOR PERFORMANCE; REAL IMAGES; REFERENCE VALUES; SPIRAL CT; STRUCTURAL ANISOTROPY; STRUCTURE TENSORS; TRABECULAR BONES; VERTEBRAL BODY; VERTEBRAL TRABECULAR BONE;

ANISOTROPY; BONE; IMAGE REGISTRATION; SCANNING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; GRAY LEVEL STRUCTURE TENSOR; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MEAN INTERCEPT LENGTH; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; REFERENCE VALUE; RELIABILITY; STRUCTURAL ANISOTROPY; TRABECULAR BONE; VERTEBRA; VERTEBRA BODY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANISOTROPY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE AGED; SPINE; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84871517361     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: 18734030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2012.03.003     Document Type: Article

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