Features:

• Cost Effective: Provides added value to your existing equipment.

• BMD Analysis available from your present Spine Scans without additional procedures.

• Performs analysis retrospectively.

• Eliminates the need for Phantoms.

• Reported precision better than 1% for normals.

• Reproducibility less than 2%.

• Determination of T-score and Z-score values.

• DICOM compatible.

A PC-based QCT software program for the convenient and reliable derivation of the QCT value of trabecular bone.

This QCT technique does not require the use of external calibration phantoms, but uses internal reference tissues instead. Muscle and fat tissue, positioned in proximity to the lumbar vertebrae, are used as reference tissue to calibrate CT numbers of trabecular bone.

An interactive histogram plotting technique is used to determine the mode CT number of the trabecular bone.

The average BMD value for the lumbar slices is determined and compared to the selected reference population data and the T and Z scores are calculated and plotted in color for the final report.

System Requirements:

The system requirements for the IRIS, Inc software packages are as follows:

Pentium Processor
3.5" HD Floppy Drive
DICOM Supported System:Network Interface
Windows 95 Required
Interfaces for Non-DICOM Systems Available