Muscle area estimation from cortical bone

Anatomical Record

Volumn 296, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1695-1707

  Slizewski, Astrid ^a   Schönau, Eckhard ^b   Shaw, Colin ^c   Harvati, Katerina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cortical bone; Functional bone tissue adaptation; Muscle bone unit; PQCT; Soft tissue reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICAL BONE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MUSCLE AREA ESTIMATION; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIUS; SCHOOL CHILD;

CORTICAL BONE; FUNCTIONAL BONE-TISSUE ADAPTATION; MUSCLE-BONE-UNIT; PQCT; SOFT TISSUE RECONSTRUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RADIUS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84886281491     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.22788     Document Type: Article

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