Comprehensive Assessment of Osteoporosis and Bone Fragility with CT Colonography.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To evaluate the ability of additional analysis of computed tomographic (CT) colonography images to provide a comprehensive osteoporosis assessment.

Materials and methods

This Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act-compliant study was approved by our institutional review board with a waiver of informed consent. Diagnosis of osteoporosis and assessment of fracture risk were compared between biomechanical CT analysis and dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) in 136 women (age range, 43-92 years), each of whom underwent CT colonography and DXA within a 6-month period (between January 2008 and April 2010). Blinded to the DXA data, biomechanical CT analysis was retrospectively applied to CT images by using phantomless calibration and finite element analysis t

SUBMITTER: Fidler JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4699492 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature