Bone densitometers are medical devices used primarily to detect quantitative decreases in bone mass related to metabolic bone diseases such as osteoporosis that may cause brittle bones prone to ...

Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA, or formerly DEXA) is a technique used to measure bone mineral density (BMD). The preferred regions for BMD measurement ... The abbreviation “DXA” was proposed by ...

The patient dose from a DXA examination is determined by system dependent parameters such as source spectra, source-detector geometry, beam collimation ... How does the patient dose in DXA compare to ...