For a sidebar on how this story came together, click here. Dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) has long been the gold standard for osteoporosis screening. But now, thousands of patients may be ...

This is a sidebar to an investigation on the growing use of QCT to screen for osteoporosis. Which test should the doctor and patient believe? This journalist can corroborate concerns about the ...

Overview of the proposed method. The training dataset consists of real X-ray images, quantitative CT (QCT) images, and the BMD measurements of 315 patients. The bone region in QCT was extracted and ...

MindwaysCT received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to market its quantitative computed tomography calibration technology for CT-based bone mineral density measurement.

"The literature reporting QCT-based lumbar spine bone density is scarce, and we believe our study is the first of its kind," said Dr. Hughes. "The purpose was to measure lumbar spine bone density ...

Finite Element Analysis (FEA) has emerged as a powerful computational tool in the evaluation of bone strength and fracture risk, particularly in the context of osteoporosis. By discretising complex ...