Assessment of carpel bone maturation using imaging: an alternative for bone age assessment or an additional tool?

Radiographic evaluation of skeletal maturation with or without automated sy stems relies on the comparison between the radiographic appearance of porti ons of a child's skeleton and the standardized appearance in a comparable p opulation of children. Assessment of skeletal maturation using image analys is of wrist computerized-assisted tomography is a quantitative method allow ing for measurements of the volume of each carpal bone, the axis of inertia , and the mean bone density: Morphological modifications of carpel bones ar e characterized by quantitative data relating to the length of the axis of inertia, and the volume. imaging is a potentially useful method for carpal bone assessment during growth. (C) 2000 Editions scientifiques et medicales Elsevier SAS.