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pQCT: Peripheral Quantitative Computed Tomography

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Radiology of Osteoporosis

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Abstract

Peripheral quantitative computed tomography (pQCT) for the forearm was introduced shortly after CT for medical imaging and several years before the development of spinal QCT (Genant and Boyd 1977; Rüegsegger 1974), as a volumetric extension to Cameron’s projectional technique for bone mineral measurements (Cameron and Sorenson 1963). Compared to single photon absorptiometry (SPA), the advantages of pQCT are obvious: separate assessment of trabecular and cortical bone and determination of true volumetric density instead of areal bone mineral density (BMD).

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Prevrhal, S., Engelke, K., Genant, H.K. (2008). pQCT: Peripheral Quantitative Computed Tomography. In: Grampp, S. (eds) Radiology of Osteoporosis. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68604-0_10

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