. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Mar 13.

Published in final edited form as: Magn Reson Med. 2011 Mar 22;66(4):1181–1191. doi: 10.1002/mrm.22885

Table 2.

Mean Geodesic Topological Analysis Parameters

GTA parameter	Head	Neck	Trochanter
Volume of junction (mm³)	0.174 ± 0.105	0.179 ± 0.106	0.184 ± 0.104
Convex hull of junction (mm³)	0.435 ± 0.360	0.469 ± 0.389	0.497 ± 0.394
Junction spacing (mm)	0.729 ± 0.522	0.784 ± 0.575	0.821 ± 0.581
Distance to junction (mm)	1.005 ± 0.677	1.066 ± 0.703	1.107 ± 0.716
Junction eccentricity	0.832 ± 0.125	0.835 ± 0.127	0.833 ± 0.127