Comparison of hr-pQCT & MRTA to DXA & QUS for the Ex-vivo Assessment of Bone Strength

There is a pressing need for better assessment of bone strength as current clinical tools do not directly measure bone mechanical properties, but offer only surrogate measures of bone strength. We conducted an ex-vivo study of emu bones to examine how two investigative devices, hr-pQCT and MRTA, co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ally, Idrees Abdul Latif
Other Authors: Cheung, Angela M.
Language:en_ca
Published: 2010
Subjects:
DXA
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/24527