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Anisotropy Estimation of Trabecular Bone in Gray-Scale: Comparison Between Cone Beam and Micro Computed Tomography Data

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Measurement of anisotropy of trabecular bone has clinical relevance in osteoporosis. In this study, anisotropy measurements of 15 trabecular bone biopsies from the radius estimated by different fabric tensors on images acquired through cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) and micro computed tomography (micro-CT) were compared. The results show that the generalized mean intercept length (MIL) tensor performs better than the global gray-scale structure tensor, especially when the von Mises-Fisher kernel is applied. Also, the generalized MIL tensor yields consistent results between the two scanners. These results suggest that this tensor is appropriate for estimating anisotropy in images acquired in vivo through CBCT.

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We thank Andres Laib from SCANCO Medical AG for providing the micro-CT data of the specimens. The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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  1. Department of Radiology and Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

    Rodrigo Moreno, Eva Klintström & Örjan Smedby

  2. Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV), Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

    Rodrigo Moreno, Magnus Borga, Eva Klintström & Örjan Smedby

  3. Linköping University, Campus US, 581 85, Linköping, Sweden

    Rodrigo Moreno, Eva Klintström & Örjan Smedby

  4. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

    Magnus Borga

  5. Department of Radiology, Karolinska University Hospital at Huddinge, Huddinge, Sweden

    Torkel Brismar

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Moreno, R., Borga, M., Klintström, E., Brismar, T., Smedby, Ö. (2015). Anisotropy Estimation of Trabecular Bone in Gray-Scale: Comparison Between Cone Beam and Micro Computed Tomography Data. In: Tavares, J., Natal Jorge, R. (eds) Developments in Medical Image Processing and Computational Vision. Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics, vol 19. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13407-9_13

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