BoneJ: Free and extensible bone image analysis in ImageJ.

Bone geometry is commonly measured on computed tomographic (CT) and X-ray microtomographic (μCT) images. We obtained hundreds of CT, μCT and synchrotron μCT images of bones from diverse species that needed to be analysed remote from scanning hardware, but found that available software solutions were expensive, inflexible or methodologically opaque. We implemented standard bone measurements in a novel ImageJ plugin, BoneJ, with which we analysed trabecular bone, whole bones and osteocyte lacunae. BoneJ is open source and free for anyone to download, use, modify and distribute.

• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Bone

• Publication date

  2010-12-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Materials Science, Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.bone.2010.08.023PMID 20817052PMCID PMC3193171
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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