Bone ultrasonic attenuation in women: reproducibility, normal variation and comparison with photon absorptiometry
| Autor: | C.F. Westmacott, Richard Milner, S. P. Stewart, Michael A. Smith, M Simpson, John Truscott, C M Langton, Brian Oldroyd, J A Evans, A. Horsman |
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| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
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musculoskeletal diseases
Adult Materials science Biophysics Absorptiometry Photon Bone Density Humans Femur Aged Ultrasonography Bone mineral Aged 80 and over Reproducibility business.industry Reproducibility of Results Middle Aged musculoskeletal system Calcaneus Normal variation Ultrasonic attenuation Photon absorptiometry Lumbar spine Female Nuclear medicine business |
| Zdroj: | Clinical physics and physiological measurement : an official journal of the Hospital Physicists' Association, Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Medizinische Physik and the European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics. 13(1) |
| ISSN: | 0143-0815 |
| Popis: | The reproducibility of two methods of measuring broadband ultrasonic attenuation (BUA) in the calcaneus have been studied. An improvement in reproducibility in vivo from 9.6% to 2.8% between old and new techniques has been observed. Measurements of the calcaneus using BUA were correlated with measurements of bone mineral density measured by dual energy x-ray absorptiometry in the lumbar spine, femur and total body and bone mineral content in the distal and proximal forearm measured by single photon absorptiometry. For the older BUA technique the correlation coefficients ranged between r = 0.27 and r = 0.34. For the newer BUA technique the correlation coefficients ranged between r = 0.49 and r = 0.62 and were all significant (P less than 0.001). |
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