Searchable abstracts of presentations at key conferences on calcified tissues

ba0006p086 | (1) | ICCBH2017

Feasibility and reproducibility using HRpQCTII in children and adolescents

Kent Kyla , Whalen Jessica , Strickland Ariana , Leonard Mary , Burghardt Andrew J.

We recruited 60 healthy volunteers ages 5 to 21 to perform scan-rescan precision tests on the XtremeCT II. Participants were positioned in a carbon fiber immobilization cast. iPad-based video content was used to facilitate motion-free compliance. Distal radius and tibia scans were acquired starting 2 mm proximal to the proximal margin of the growth plate or growth plate remnant. Diaphyseal radius and tibia scans were centered at an offset from the same landmark, corresponding ...