Cortical Thickness Mapping to Identify Focal Osteoporosis in Patients with Hip Fracture

Competing Interests: GMT and KESP are co-inventors on a related GB patent application A method of determining the cortical thickness of a patients bone (GB0917524.1 Accurate cortical thickness measurement from clinical CT data, A method of determining the cortical thickness of a patients bone. International (PCT) Patent Application No PCT/GB2010/051671, CU ref: TRE-2326-09-01, International search ref: PC925159WO. Title: Image data processing systems, Inventors: G.M. Treece & K.E.S Poole). The other authors have declared that no competing interests exist. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. Funding: This analysis was funded by Arthritis Research UK via a Clinician Scientist Fellowship award to KESP. Cambridge National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre funded PMM. The Evelyn Trust funded GMT. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.