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Quantitative Assessment of Bone: Radiologic Methods

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Current Concepts of Bone Fragility

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Atraumatic or noninvasive methods for assessing the status of bone can be divided into two major groups; radiologic and nonradiologic. The former use ionizing radiation, including radiation produced by X-ray tubes, radioactive isotopes, and accelerators, namely photons and neutrons. Nonradiologic methods, such as ultrasound (Jurist, 1970; Langeton et al, 1984) and measurement of skinfold thickness (Brincat et al, 1984), are still in a developmental stage for application to bone, and therefore will not be discussed further.

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Hangartner, T.N. (1986). Quantitative Assessment of Bone: Radiologic Methods. In: Uhthoff, H.K. (eds) Current Concepts of Bone Fragility. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70709-4_7

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