Vertebral Fracture Assessment in Supine Position: Comparison by Using Conventional Semiquantitative Radiography and Visual Radiography

Vertebral fracture assessment using a semiquantitative technique.

The assessment of vertebral fracture by conventional radiography has been refined and improved using either semiquantitative or quantitative criteria. The inter- and intraobserver variability was determined for a semiquantitative visual approach that we routinely use in clinical studies for assessing prevalent and incident vertebral fractures. In addition, the semiquantitative approach was comp...

Digital Radiography Versus Conventional Radiography in Dentistry

Belma Muhamedagic, Lejla Muhamedagic Faculty of Medicine, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina ography-RVG, Trophy Radiologie, Croissy Beaubourg, France [now Trophy, A Kodak Company, Rochester, N.Y.]). RVG is modern diagnostic method based on use of digital roentgen. Principle is use of so called CCD chip in RVG sensor (Figure 1) that put in patient’s mouth (3). The first dental digit...

MRI assessment of vertebral fractures identified by conventional radiography in osteoporotic patients: a preliminary study

Comparison of screening strategies for prevalent vertebral fractures in South Korea: vertebral fracture assessment vs. spine radiography

BACKGROUND Vertebral Fracture Assessment (VFA) is a useful tool to detect the vertebral fracture (VF) with low cost and radiation exposure. We aimed to compare screening strategies including VFA and spine radiography (X-ray) for detecting VF in terms of clinical effectiveness, cost and radiation exposure. METHODS Three screening strategies: 1) X-ray following VFA, 2) VFA only, and 3) X-ray on...

Color radiography in lung nodule detection and characterization: comparison with conventional gray scale radiography

BACKGROUND To compare the capability of lung nodule detection and characterization between dual-energy radiography with color-representation (DCR) and conventional gray scale chest radiography (GSR). METHODS A total of 130 paired chest radiographs (DCR and GSR) obtained from 65 patients (14 with normal scans and 51 with pulmonary nodules) were evaluated. After analysis, 45 non-calcified and 2...