The possibility of poor bone health in children is becoming greater from poor nutrition, lack of exercise, hereditary factors or iatrogenic due to treatment of chronic conditions. Lumbar spine (LS) and total body less head (TBLH) are the preferred sites for measuring bone mineral content (BMC) in grammes or areal bone mineral density (BMD) in […]
Sue Barlow
Vertec Scientific
For many years there has been a dilemma around the importance of vertebral fractures in the treatment plan for osteoporosis, and the under-diagnosis of them in the imaging world from radiologists who perhaps do not see them as unusual in a certain cohort of patients and do not document their presence. The great majority of […]
Sue Barlow
Vertec Scientific
Precision in imaging, often referred to as reproducibility, describes the ability of a quantitative measurement technique to reproduce the same numerical result when repeatedly performed in an identical fashion. In DXA, precision is the ability of a DXA system to obtain consistent bone mineral density (BMD) values upon repeated measurements of the same patient over […]
Sue Barlow
Vertec Scientific
The use of bisphosphonates in the treatment of osteoporosis and management of fractures due to low bone mineral density is well established in the world of bone densitometry. Recent studies by a task force on behalf of American Society of Bone Mineral Research (ASBMR) have linked long-term bisphosphonate therapy with an increased risk of atypical […]
Sue Barlow
Vertec Scientific