Structural analysis of cortical porosity applied to HR-pQCT data

Medical Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Tjong, Willy ^a   Nirody, Jasmine ^a   Burghardt, Andrew J ^a   Carballido Gamio, Julio ^a   Kazakia, Galateia J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cortical porosity; HR pQCT; micro CT; resolution; structure

Indexed keywords

CANALS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; MICROSTRUCTURE; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; POROSITY; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); TUBES (COMPONENTS);

COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; CORTICAL POROSITY; HR-PQCT; MICRO CT; TOPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; TOPOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION; TOPOLOGICAL DESCRIPTORS; TOPOLOGY PRESERVING;

TOPOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BONE STRUCTURE; CADAVER; CORTICAL BONE; FEMALE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HIGH RESOLUTION PERIPHERAL QUANTITATIVE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; PERIOSTEUM; POROSITY; PREDICTION; SKELETON; TRABECULAR BONE; VERY ELDERLY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIUS; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POROSITY; RADIUS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84892183152     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4851575     Document Type: Article

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