High-resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography for the assessment of bone strength and structure: A review by the canadian bone strength working group

Current Osteoporosis Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 136-146

  Cheung, Angela M ^a   Adachi, Jonathan D ^b   Hanley, David A ^c   Kendler, David L ^d   Davison, K Shawn ^e   Josse, Robert ^f   Brown, Jacques P ^g   Ste Marie, Louis Georges ^h   Kremer, Richard ⁱ   Erlandson, Marta C ^a,f   Dian, Larry ^d   Burghardt, Andrew J ^j   Boyd, Steven K ^k  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

ⁱ MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

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Author keywords

Age; Assessment; Bone microarchitecture; Bone strength; Finite element analysis; Fracture; High resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography; Therapy; Volumetric BMD

Indexed keywords

ALENDRONIC ACID; DENOSUMAB; ODANACATIB; PARATHYROID HORMONE[1-34]; STRONTIUM RANELATE; ZOLEDRONIC ACID;

AGING; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE STRENGTH; BONE STRUCTURE; CANADA; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CORTICAL BONE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DRUG EFFECT; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FRACTURE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATIENT POSITIONING; PREDICTION; RADIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRABECULAR BONE;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; BONE AND BONES; BONE DENSITY; CANADA; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84879077735     PISSN: 15441873     EISSN: 15442241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11914-013-0140-9     Document Type: Article

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