Proceedings of the Korean Society of Medical Physics Conference (한국의학물리학회:학술대회논문집)
- 2002.09a
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- Pages.425-426
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- 2002
Comparison of Bone Mineral Density with Pencil Beam and Fan Beam DXA Machine
- Park, Jeong-Hoon (Isol Technology Inc.) ;
- Lee, Jae-Mun (Dept. of Radiology, St.Mary's Hospital) ;
- Youn, Je-Woong (Isol Technology Inc.) ;
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Suh, Tae-Suk
(Dept of Biomedical Engineering, The Catholic Univ. of Korea)
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Lee, Heung-Kyu
(Isol Technology Inc., Dept of Biomedical Engineering, The Catholic Univ. of Korea)
- Published : 2002.09.01
Abstract
The bone densitometer is to investigate the bone mineral content and density for the osteoporosis assessment by using dual energy X-ray photons. For the clinical verification of the ISOL's OSTEO plus, the clinical study was performed with healthy and non-menopausal 30 female volunteers. The fan-beam DXA machine (Lunar, Expert) was chosen as a reference. After correlation analysis of their bone mineral densities, a strong correlation was obtained. From the results, it is claimed that the new forearm bone densitometer is clinically useful in osteoporosis diagnosis.