Basic Considerations and Definitions in Bone Densitometry

摘要: Bone densitometry has become an established tool for diagnosing and following up patients with disorders affecting the bone mineralization. The development of certainly been driven by need to overcome inherent shortcomings plain radiography assessing density [17, 79]. Several studies show that agreement between radiologists assessment mineral status based on radiographs spine is only moderate [30, 66]. This maybe even more a problem when one tries assess changes in conventional radiography. Semiquantitative methods such as Saville’s, Singh’s, or Jhamaria’s osteoporosis indices are limited value, some quantitative scores Barnett-Nordin index at do not really demonstrate good correlation [6, 67, 68,112,114]. Therefore number quantitatively person’s imperfections have developed. With these completely new terminology evolved including various acronyms definitions part specific methods, used diagnostic purposes.