Clinical Use of Quantitative Computed Tomography and Peripheral Quantitative Computed Tomography in the Management of Osteoporosis in Adults: The 2007 ISCD Official Positions

Journal of Clinical Densitometry - Tập 11 Số 1 - Trang 123-162 - 2008
Klaus Engelke1, Judith E. Adams2, Gabriele Armbrecht3, Peter Augat4, César E. Bogado5, Mary Bouxsein6, Dieter Felsenberg7, Masako Ito8, Sven Prevrhal9, Didier Hans10, E. Michael Lewiecki11
1Institute of Medical Physics, University of Erlangen, Germany
2Department of Clinical Radiology, Division of Imaging Science and Biomedical Engineering, University of Manchester, UK
3Center of Muscle and Bone Research, Charite—University Medicine Berlin, Germany
4Biomechanics Research Laboratory, Trauma Center Murnau, Germany
5Department of Clinical Research, Instituto de Investigaciones Metabolicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina
6Department of Orthopedic Surgery; Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School; Boston; MA; USA
7Department of Radiology, Charité – University Medicine, Berlin, Germany
8Division of Radiology, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan
9Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
10Division of Nuclear Medicine, Geneva University Hospital, Switzerland,
11New Mexico Clinical Research & Osteoporosis Center, Albuquerque, NM, USA

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