Healio

DXA and scoliosis

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Back to back patients, both women in their late 50s, arrived at the clinic with their DXA reports in hand and ...
Healio

DXA and bisphosphonate use in young, healthy patients

Editor’s note: This blog entry is in response to the following comment made to one of Dr. Kleerekoper’s previous blog entries: "This is really intriguing. I'm a 30-year-old female who was diagnosed ...
iaea.org

Radiation protection of patients during DXA

» What are the typical dose levels in DXA? » Does the design of DXA equipment affect patient dose? » How does the patient dose in DXA compare to the dose from BMD estimates using Quantitative ...
Medscape

DXA Screening Underused in Women at High Risk for Fracture

Osteoporosis screening was underused in women at a higher risk for fracture and overused in women at a low risk, according to a study of nearly 51,000 women published online May 19 in the Journal of ...
Baylor College of Medicine

Pediatric Body Composition Reference Charts

BMC, Lean, & Fat must be entered in order to calculate any Z-score. DXA Z-scores are available only for ages 8 - 20 yrs. In certain browsers(Firefox, Chrome), you may ...
Nature

DXA-measured visceral adipose tissue predicts impaired glucose tolerance and metabolic syndrome in obese Caucasian and African-American women

New methods to measure visceral adipose tissue (VAT) by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) may help discern sex, race and phenotype differences in the role of VAT in cardiometabolic risk. This ...
iaea.org

Radiation protection of medical staff performing DXA

» What is the typical staff dose from a DXA examination? The dose to staff in DXA facilities is generally small. However, new developments in DXA imaging technology (fan beam, cone beam, C-arm ...