Estimating the density of femoral head trabecular bone from hip fracture patients using computed tomography scan data

The purpose of this study was to compare computed tomography density (ρ_CT ) obtained using typical clinical computed tomography scan parameters to ash density (ρ_ash ), for the prediction of densities of femoral head trabecular bone from hip fracture patients. An experimental study was conducted to investigate the relationships between ρ_ash and ρ_CT and between each of these densities and ρ_bulk and ρ_dry . Seven human femoral heads from hip …