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18610596

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-7-9
pubmed:abstractText
To develop a method of evaluating bone mass with CT numbers (Hounsfield unit, HU), volumetric mean of CT numbers (HUm) was defined to describe bone mass for the study of bone loss caused by microgravity. Ten femurs in the tail-suspended rats experiment were scanned by CT scanner. And the RUm of the intact, proximal, middle and distal femurs were obtained from these CT data. Then regressive analysis was performed between HUm and bone mineral density (BMD) measured by DXA in those regions. When HU threshold is equal to 400, the correlation between BMD and HUm of the intact femur is the best in all cases (R = 0.887, P <0.001), and the correlation between BMD and HUm of the proximal femur (R = 0.833, P <0.01) is better than those of the middle femur (R=0.683, P<0.05) and distal femur (R = 0.744, P<0.05). Volumetric mean of CT numbers has a good linear relationship with BMD; it can accurately describe bone mass and can be used to evaluate the results of the tail-suspended rats experiment.
pubmed:language
chi
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
1001-5515
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
25
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
231-4
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
[A method to evaluate femoral bone mass in rats with CT numbers].
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't