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through CBCT and micro-CT of 15 trabecular

bone biopsies from the radius.

The results presented in the previous section

show strong correlations between micro-CT and

CBCT for the generalized MIL tensor with HC

and vMF kernels, especially with κ = 10. In addi-

tion, good agreements between measurements

in CBCT and the reference micro-CT have been

shown through Bland-Altman plots for HC, vMF

with κ = 10 and GST.

An interesting result is that the GST yields clearly

lower correlation values than the generalized MIL

tensor using either HC or vMF kernels. We have

shown that the GST can be seen as a variant of the

generalized MIL tensor where the impulse kernel

is applied instead of the HC (Moreno et al., 2012).

In this line, the results from the ...