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Oral imaging as a diagnostic tool for assessing osseous changes
Author(s) -
Webber Richard L.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of bone and mineral research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.882
H-Index - 241
eISSN - 1523-4681
pISSN - 0884-0431
DOI - 10.1002/jbmr.5650081322
Subject(s) - subtraction , modalities , radiography , magnetic resonance imaging , medicine , characterization (materials science) , radiology , nuclear medicine , computer science , physics , mathematics , optics , social science , arithmetic , sociology
Practical use of images for diagnosis of osseous, abnormalities presumes cost‐effective technology that targets known physiologic processes. The most obvious modalities for such applications are radiographic, and the newest are characterized by quantitative methods expressed both tomographically and by means of digital subtraction registered in two and three dimensions. Quantitative nuclear medicine and possibly electron spin resonance spectroscopy also appear promising. New analytic techniques for interpreting osseous images include characterization of trabecular patterns by fractal descriptors and micromorphometry.