# Best tools to analyze spongy bone/ trabecular bone ?

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/best-tools-to-analyze-spongy-bone-trabecular-bone/24457>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** segmentation, dicom, 3d-model\
**Created:** [July 22, 2022, 8:11pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/best-tools-to-analyze-spongy-bone-trabecular-bone/24457 "2022-07-22T20:11:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Marjan\_Khan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/marjan_khan/32/16074_2.png) [@Marjan\_Khan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Marjan_Khan)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2022, 8:11pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/best-tools-to-analyze-spongy-bone-trabecular-bone/24457/1 "2022-07-22T20:11:24Z")

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Hi, I use the Bone thickness tool to analyze Cortical Bone, but curious as to what extensions/ plug-ins I can use to analyze porosity/ deterioration of trabecular bone. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![muratmaga](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/muratmaga/32/3622_2.png) [@muratmaga](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/muratmaga)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2022, 10:52pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/best-tools-to-analyze-spongy-bone-trabecular-bone/24457/2 "2022-07-22T22:52:31Z")

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Bone texture extension should give you some of the standard metrics (porosity, tb thickness etc)

> **[GitHub - Kitware/BoneTextureExtension: Slicer extensions for computing...](https://github.com/Kitware/BoneTextureExtension)**
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> Slicer extensions for computing feature maps of N-Dimensional images using well-known texture analysis methods. - GitHub - Kitware/BoneTextureExtension: Slicer extensions for computing feature maps...