Preliminary application of 241-Americium calcaneus bone mineral density measurement in osteoporosis ——comparison with double X-ray densitometry of the lumber spine
GUAN Liang ZHU Chengmo LI Peiyong WANG Hui PU Mingfang QIU Jigao. Preliminary application of 241-Americium calcaneus bone mineral density measurement in osteoporosis ——comparison with double X-ray densitometry of the lumber spine[J]. Nuclear techniques, 2001, (5): 345-349.
GUAN Liang ZHU Chengmo LI Peiyong WANG Hui PU Mingfang QIU Jigao. Preliminary application of 241-Americium calcaneus bone mineral density measurement in osteoporosis ——comparison with double X-ray densitometry of the lumber spine[J]. Nuclear techniques, 2001, (5): 345-349.DOI:
Bone mineral density (BMD) of calcaneus in 54 normals
45 Osteoporosis
25 suspected osteoporosis and 16 other non-osteoporosis patients
a total of 140 cases were measured by HUAKE (HK-1) 241-Americium BMD absorpmetry
among them 43 were compared with that of lumber spine (L2—L4) measured by Lunar Corporation’s Expert-XL absorpmeter. BMD of normal group of calcaneus was (409.8±79.4)mg/cm 2. The BMD were decreased slowly with the increased age. The BMD of osteoporosis
suspected osteoporosis and non-osteoporosis group were 230.3±62.3
395.7±57.4 and 363.3±51.9mg/cm 2 respectively. The BMD of osteoporosis group was much lower than that of normal group
and also lower than that of the other two groups
among 26 patients (57.78%) had bone fracture
all was in accordance with the clinical diagnosis of osteoporosis. The BMD of suspected ospteoporosis and non-osteoporosis had no significant difference with normal group. The coefficient variation (CV) of BMD in repeated measurement in calcaneus of 4 pariticipants was less than 1.2%. The correlative coefficient ( r ) between BMD of calcaneus and lumber spine (L2—L4) group was 0.6824. The correlative coefficient of normal young adult-matched percentage and T value in 2 groups were 0.6863 and 0.6755 respectively
whereas aged-matched percentage
Z value were 0.4614 and 0.5009 respectively. In conclusion 241-Americium calcaneus BMD absorpmetry has the advantage of low price
easy to operate
reliable and valuable in diagnosis osteoporosis. The correlations of calcaneus and lumber spine BMD
normal young adult-matched percentagy and T value were rather good.