DPX Duo Bone Densitometer | GE Healthcare Lunar

The highly automated enCORE software platform, based on Windows, optimizes productivity and ensures consistant results. Advanced OneScan and SmartScan features provide unprecidented ease of use and high precision.

Automated

Patient scanning is quick and automated with SmartScan. This unique measurement technique automatically adjusts the scan path real-time during the examination. The intuitive graphical user interface combined with AutoAnalysis calculates patient results with no operator intervention in more than 95% of clinical cases.[1]

Efficient

OneScan automatically combines scans of the spine and hip into one exam; both scans are acquired in one process and evaluated in one analysis.

Confident

The optional DualFemur feature automatically measures both the left and right femurs in one fast scan. DualFemur improves accuracy by identifying the femur with the lowest density. The 30%[2] improvement in precision seen with the combined L/R BMD enhances the ability to monitor response to therapy at this critical fracture site.

Seamless

The Lunar DPX Duo patient report combines key diagnostic results. It prominently displays T-scores along with fracture risk assessment graphs based on the World Health Organization (WHO) criteria for diagnosing osteoporosis. This makes result interpretation and fracture risk assessment seamless.

Osteoporosis Facts 

·      Approximately 40% of 50-year-old women and 25% of 50-year-old men will experience at least one osteoporotic fracture during their remaining lifetime. [3,4]

·      A woman’s risk of an osteoporotic fracture is much higher than that of breast cancer, stroke and heart attack combined.[5,6,7,8]

 References:

1. Steinberg D. Presented at ISCD 2003.

2. SL Bonnick, LA Lewis. Texas Women's University, Denton, TX, USA. ISCD Meeting, 2002.

3. Melton LJ III, Lane AW, Cooper C, Eastell R, O’Fallon WM, Riggs BL, 1993 Prevalence and incidence of vertebral fractures. Osteoporosis Int 3:113-119.

4. Randell A, Sambrook PN, Nguyen TV, et al. (1995) Direct clinical and welfare costs of osteoporotic fractures in elderly men and women. Osteoporosis Int 5:427-432

5. Annual incidence women all ages. National Osteoporosis Foundation, Physician’s Guide to Prevention and Treatment of Osteoporosis, Washington, DC; National Osteoporosis Foundation, 2003.

6. Annual estimate women 29+. American Heart Association, Heart & Stroke Facts, Dallas, TX; American Heart Association, 2003.

7. Annual estimate women 30+. American Heart Association, Heart & Stroke Facts, Dallas, TX; American Heart Association, 2003.

8. 2005 new cases women of all ages. American Cancer Society, Cancer Facts & Figures 2005, Atlanta, GA; American Cancer Society, 2005.

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