Bone extraction and division can enhance the accuracy of diagnoses based on whole-body bone SPECT data. This study developed a method for using conventional SPECT for automatic recognition of the vertebral column. A novel feature of the proposed approach is a novel "bone graph" image description method that represents the connectivity between these image regions to facilitate manipulation of mo...

Bone mineral content (BMC) and bone mineral density (BMD) measurements were made by dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) in 112 healthy 12-yr-old white girls for the purposes of: (1) establishing reference data on total-body mineral content of 12-yr-old girls and (2) comparing the lumbar spinal bone density values from a dedicated scan with the lumbar region of interest bone density values f...

Leukemia is the most common childhood cancer and accounts for 30-40% of all malignancies. A retrospective review  was performed of the hospital records of 9 children, 6 boys and 3 girls, aged  from 2.5 to 15 years with ALL initially referred to Nemazee hospital Nuclear medicine center for whole body bone scanning between 2000 and 2002. Bone marrow pathology established ALL (L1) in two and ALL (...

this report presents a 3.5-year-old boy who was hospitalized for limping. medical history and physical exams were not suggestive for any definitive diagnosis. laboratory and radiographic exams did not support any specific diagnosis either. subsequently bone scan was performed and increased activity in the ankle due to cuboid fracture was incidentally observed.

leukemia is the most common childhood cancer and accounts for 30-40% of all malignancies. a retrospective review  was performed of the hospital records of 9 children, 6 boys and 3 girls, aged  from 2.5 to 15 years with all initially referred to nemazee hospital nuclear medicine center for whole body bone scanning between 2000 and 2002. bone marrow pathology established all (l1) in two and all (...

patients and methods in this cross-sectional study, we evaluated all patients referred to a single rheumatology clinic for bone mineral density measurements from 2009 to 2010. all patients who had bone mineral density measurements taken from the hip, lumbar spine, forearm, and whole body were enrolled in the study. standard bone mineral density measurements were performed using a dual energy x-...