Opportunistic osteoporosis screening via the measurement of frontal skull Hounsfield units derived from brain computed tomography images.
Min Kyun NaYu Deok WonChoong Hyun KimJae Min KimJin Hwan CheongJe Il RyuMyung-Hoon HanPublished in: PloS one (2018)
Clinical brain CT scans can assist in the detection of osteoporosis, and patients with an HU value < 610 as determined via brain CT may be considered for further evaluation for possible osteoporosis.
Keyphrases
- computed tomography
- dual energy
- postmenopausal women
- resting state
- bone mineral density
- contrast enhanced
- white matter
- positron emission tomography
- image quality
- functional connectivity
- magnetic resonance imaging
- cerebral ischemia
- multiple sclerosis
- magnetic resonance
- convolutional neural network
- loop mediated isothermal amplification