New Imaging Modalities in Bone
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New Imaging Modalities in Bone
The digital era has witnessed an exponential growth in bone imaging as new modalities and analytic techniques improve the potential for noninvasive study of bone anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology. Bone imaging very much lends itself to input across medical and engineering disciplines. It is in part a reflection of this multidisciplinary input that developments in the field of bone imagin...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Current Rheumatology Reports
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1523-3774,1534-6307
DOI: 10.1007/s11926-011-0174-x