New clinical results concerning the diagnosis of osteoporosis applying QCT

QCT in many areas achieves promising results as a quantitative method. One of the first applications during the first stage of development was the determination of mineral salt contents of the bones. The article in hand uses some clinical examples of routine applications of QCT for bone mineral content analysis, in order to explain new techniques, as e.g. automatic contour finding of the image areas in the corpus vertebrae (in combination with the two-spectrum method). Our experience has shown that QCT yields results that can well stand comparison with other methods applied for bone mineral analysis. (orig./SHA)