Replacing DXA scanners: Cross-calibration with phantoms may be misleading

Calcified Tissue International

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-5

  Blake, G M ^a  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Cross calibration; Dual X ray absorptiometry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE MINERAL; CALIBRATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DENSITOMETRY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK; HUMAN; PHANTOM; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; BONE DENSITY; CALIBRATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HIP; HUMANS; PHANTOM LIMB; SPINE; X-RAYS;

EID: 0030037280     PISSN: 0171967X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002239900075     Document Type: Article

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