13th Congress of International Society of Bone Morphometry

The International Society of Bone Morphometry (ISBM) was founded in 1973, and incorporated as a non-profit organization in 1996. The mission of ISBM is to emphasize the importance of traditional morphometric techniques in the field of bone research, to embrace new technologies that result in refinements and advances in bone morphometric analyses, and to facilitate the education and training of basic scientists and clinicians in all aspects of bone morphometry. Many preclinical and clinical studies utilize bone morphometry as an essential technique to assess changes in bone structure and function in response to a variety of influences such as hormones, cytokines, growth factors, mechanical loading, and bone-active drugs. Bone morphometry is also essential for skeletal phenotyping of knockout and transgenic mice. Recent rapid advances in human bone imaging are emphasizing the importance of bone morphometry as a tool for patient evaluation and monitoring drug efficacy in clinical practice.