he relationship between bone mineral content (BMC) and fracture has been approached in
the medical literature from two distinctly different perspectives. The first approach employs …

Dual X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is widely recognized as the'gold standard'for the
evaluation of bone mineral density (BMD). In recent years, it has become conven-tional to …

BACKGROUND The developing skeleton. Longitudinal growth of the skeleton continues,
with intermittent spurts, for nearly two decades, but the maximum bone mass is reached only …

Photon absorptiometry by single-or dual-energy techniques has evolved as a powerful
method to estimate bone mineral content in selected bones or of the entire skeleton. Though …

[en] In the past 20 years, significant progress has been made in the development of
techniques for measuring bone mass in vivo. A complex pattern of bone loss in health and …

With the dawn of the 1980's, nuclear medicine is evolving from an imaging modality to a
more integrated imaging-clinical specialty than it has been in the past. With regard to such …

Nuclear medicine is a remarkably dynamic subspecialty of medicine that requires a deep
understanding of basic sciences, complex regulatory issues, and pathophysiologic …

“What is nuclear medicine?” from family, friends, patients, fellow health care providers, and
others? I am amazed at how often I have had to explain it or when someone, after having …

FIG. 3. Left panel: unitof measurementIs gram of ashed bone per I cm of axIal length. Rl@
itpanel: Logaithmofcountrate Is plottedon graphpaperby analogre corder. Area of logarIthmIc …

In 1983 I proposed to the organizers of an NIH consensus conference that they consider the
contribution of bone quality to bone fragility, but the suggestion fell on deaf ears. In 1987, at …