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In Vivo Assessment of Trabecular Bone Microarchitecture by High-Resolution Peripheral Quantitative Computed Tomography."

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HR-pQCT appears promising to assess bone density and microarchitecture at peripheral sites in terms of reproducibility and ability to detect age- and disease-related changes.
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Context: Assessment of trabecular microarchitecture may enhance the prediction of fracture risk and improve monitoring of treatment response. A new high-resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography (HR-pQCT) system permits in vivo assessment of trabecular architecture and volumetric bone mineral density (BMD) at the distal radius and tibia with a voxel size of 82 μm3. Objective and Patients: We determined the short-term reproducibility of this device by measuring 15 healthy volunteers three times each. We compared HR-pQCT measurements in 108 healthy premenopausal, 113 postmenopausal osteopenic, and 35 postmenopausal osteoporotic women. Furthermore, we compared values in postmenopausal osteopenic women with (n = 35) and without previous fracture history (n = 78). Design and Setting: We conducted a cross-sectional study in a private clinical research center. Intervention and Main Outcome Measure: We took HR-pQCT measurements of the radius and tibia. Femoral neck and spine BMD were measured in post...

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Trabecular bone score: a noninvasive analytical method based upon the DXA image.

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Automatic segmentation of cortical and trabecular compartments based on a dual threshold technique for in vivo micro-CT bone analysis

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Bone microarchitecture assessed by TBS predicts osteoporotic fractures independent of bone density: the Manitoba study.

TL;DR: Combining the TBS trabecular texture index with BMD incrementally improves fracture prediction in postmenopausal women.
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Relationships between surface, volume, and thickness of iliac trabecular bone in aging and in osteoporosis. Implications for the microanatomic and cellular mechanisms of bone loss.

TL;DR: The data indicate that age-related bone loss occurs principally by a process that removes entire structural elements of bone; those that remain are more widely separated and some may undergo compensatory thickening, but most slowly become reduced in thickness.
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Accurate assessment of precision errors: how to measure the reproducibility of bone densitometry techniques

TL;DR: This work recommends three (or four) repeated measurements per individual in a subject group of at least 14 individuals to characterize short-term (or long-term) precision of a technique.
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Identification and fracture outcomes of undiagnosed low bone mineral density in postmenopausal women: Results from the National Osteoporosis Risk assessment

TL;DR: Age, personal or family history of fracture, Asian or Hispanic heritage, smoking, and cortisone use were associated with significantly increased likelihood of osteoporosis; higher body mass index, African American heritage, estrogen or diuretic use, exercise, and alcohol consumption significantly decreased the likelihood.
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Quantification of Bone Microarchitecture with the Structure Model Index.

TL;DR: In this paper, a morphometric parameter called Structure Model Index (SMI) is introduced, which makes it possible to quantify the characteristic form of a three-dimensionalally described structure in terms of the amount of plates and rods composing the structure.
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