A novel method to evaluate the transverse pedicle angles of the lower lumbar vertebrae using digital radiography

• Shixun Wu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Orthopedics Surgery, Shaanxi Provincial People’s Hospital, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China, Key Laboratory of Bone Joint Disease Basic and Clinical Translation of Shaanxi Province, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

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• Shizhang Liu,

  Roles Data curation, Validation

  Affiliations Department of Orthopedics Surgery, Shaanxi Provincial People’s Hospital, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China, Key Laboratory of Bone Joint Disease Basic and Clinical Translation of Shaanxi Province, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

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• Ming Ling,

  Roles Validation

  Affiliations Department of Orthopedics Surgery, Shaanxi Provincial People’s Hospital, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China, Key Laboratory of Bone Joint Disease Basic and Clinical Translation of Shaanxi Province, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

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• Minggang Huang,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Computed Tomography, Shaanxi Provincial People’s Hospital, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

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• Zhe Liu,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Computed Tomography, Shaanxi Provincial People’s Hospital, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

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• Xianglong Duan

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: duanxianglong@nwpu.edu.cn

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Bone Joint Disease Basic and Clinical Translation of Shaanxi Province, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China, Second Department of General Surgery, Shaanxi Provincial People’s Hospital, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China, Institute of Medical Research, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an Shaanxi, China, Second Department of General Surgery, Third Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3530-7593

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