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Volume 12, Issue 2 , Pages 162-169 , April 2009

Analysis of ISCD-NIST Survey for Bone Health

Andrew Dienstfrey
- Mathematics and Computational Sciences Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO, USA
- Address correspondence to: Andrew Dienstfrey, PhD, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Math and Computational Sciences Division, 325 Broadway, Mail Stop 891.01, Boulder, CO 80305-3328.
Tammy Oreskovic
- Mathematics and Computational Sciences Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO, USA
Herbert Bennett
- Materials Reliability Division, Semiconductor Electronics Division and the Ionizing Radiation Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA
Lawrence Hudson
- Materials Reliability Division, Semiconductor Electronics Division and the Ionizing Radiation Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA

Received 29 August 2008 ,Revised 11 December 2008 ,Accepted 12 December 2008.

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