Bone density scanners are a valuable tool for diagnosing and monitoring bone health, particularly in patients who are at risk for or already have osteoporosis. A bone density scanner, also known as a dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scan machine, is a specialized type of X-ray machine...
A DEXA scan and a bone scan are different tests. Abone scan,or scintigraphy, is often used to look for an infection or abnormal cells, like cancer cells, inside your bone tissue. But it can also be used to check your bone density. ...
关键词: biomechanics bone computerised tomography finite element analysis fracture orthopaedics physiological models CT-scan FEA bone density 会议名称: 2009 9th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine 主办单位: IEEE ...
Bone Density Scan Not a Screening ToolMichele Kohli
We investigated the reasons for referral of older Australians aged 70 years and older to dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA). The most common clinical indication was being aged 70 years and older, followed by monitoring for fracture or low bone mineral density (BMD). Compared to males, fem...
An automatic image registration technique, based on mutual information, utilized a baseline and a follow-up scan to compute transform parameters that aligned the two images. In the short-term study, these parameters were subsequently used to transform the follow-up image with three different gray-...
Micro-CT scan Histological evaluation Biomechanical test The cubic bone block. Full size image Biomechanical test of the bone block. Full size image Statistical analysis All data are expressed as the mean ± SD. We used SPSS 19.0 software (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA) to perform statistic...
The GAN has the capability of data generation without explicitly modelling the probability density function37. In one study, a deep learning-based method using a modified GAN improved image quality for generating corrected CBCT images, which integrated a residual block concept into a Cycle-GAN ...
advantage is that the effects of various imaging parameters related to the contrast of the image, such as X-ray irradiation time and irradiation dose, can be removed from the input image because the intensity of CT in Hounsfield units is normalized so that it linearly correlates with density. ...
bone tissue, osteoblasts and osteoclasts (N = 28 samples evaluated for each sample type). Gender-dependency of circulating miRNA expression is indicated as well as the correlation between miRNA regulation in bone tissue and BMD (=bone mineral density) values. OB = osteoblast, OC =...