Overview
Bone imaging encompasses the medical imaging techniques used to visualize skeletal structure, composition, and metabolic activity in order to detect, characterize, and monitor disease of the bones and joints. Modalities differ in the physical signal they exploit: conventional radiography and computed tomography render mineralized cortical and trabecular architecture with high spatial detail; magnetic resonance imaging depicts marrow, soft tissue, and pathological infiltration without ionizing radiation; and nuclear medicine techniques such as bone scintigraphy and positron emission tomography map osteoblastic activity and metabolic turnover. Together these approaches identify fractures, infection, tumors and metastases, degenerative and metabolic bone disease, and they guide surgical planning and assessment of graft or implant viability. Work relevant to this topic includes overviews of imaging modalities for evaluating bone allograft viability and comparative assessments of cone-beam computed tomography and orthopantomography in bone-augmentation procedures, alongside diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging and emerging tissue-clearing methods that extend diagnostic capability. Selection of a modality balances spatial resolution, sensitivity to metabolic or marrow change, radiation exposure, and clinical question. By combining anatomical and functional information, bone imaging supports accurate diagnosis, staging, treatment planning, and longitudinal follow-up across orthopedic, oncologic, and reconstructive contexts.
Research published in this journal
6 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.
A Comparative Evaluation of the Role of Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) Imaging and Orthopantomography (OPG) in Sinus Augmentation Procedures: An Original Study
Role of Echo-Planar Diffusion-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Diagnosis of Cholesteatoma
Toward Better Medical Diagnosis: Tissue Optical Clearing
Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma of the Lacrimal Gland in a 36 year Old Male
Transmutation of Sweat Glands - Eccrine Porocarcinoma
How this research is being cited
The 6 articles above have been cited 20 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.
-
2025 · Journal of Biophotonics
-
2025 · Research Square (Research Square)
-
2024 · Journal of Biophotonics
-
2023 · Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
-
2023 · Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
-
2023 · IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
-
2023 · Journal of Biophotonics
-
2023 · Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Bone Imaging, linking to each citing work.