Lunar Prodigy Primo | GE Healthcare Lunar

The Lunar Prodigy Primo is a narrow-angle fan-beam platform providing direct-digital scanning and clinical utility. You get measurements of the two most vital clinical sites – spine and femur – at a low radiation dose. The highly-automated Windows-based enCORE software platform optimizes productivity and ensures consistent results. The OneScan feature provides unprecedented ease of use and high precision.[1]

Confident

The 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% improvement in precision[2] seen with the combined left and right BMD enhances the ability to monitor response to therapy at this critical fracture site.

Efficient

With OneVision you and your referring physicians receive a single, consolidated report that combines the complete risk assessment analysis rather than receiving multiple assessment reports. The OneScan feature adds further time savings and convenience, by automatically combining AP Spine and DualFemur scans into one acquisition.[1]

Seamless

The Lunar Prodigy Primo patient report displays T-scores and Z-scores along with the fracture risk assessment graph, based on the World Health Organization (WHO) criteria to define osteoporosis, and key diagnostic information. This makes interpretation of results and fracture risk assessment seamless.

Body composition

Accurate measurement of body composition provides valuable information for assessing, monitoring and treating a variety of diseases and disorders. Most people are used to stepping on a scale before every visit to a doctor's examining room. But monitoring patients' weight – while helpful – is at best a crude and imprecise way to assess their health. Today's body composition measurement tools provide far more complete and precise information that can help support diagnoses and guide treatment. They can even help athletes make decisions on the training regimens they use to achieve the best performance. Body composition measurement with dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) can look beyond weight and the traditional body mass index (BMI) to determine body fat distribution – an important risk factor in a variety of serious diseases. More broadly speaking, information from DXA exams can prove valuable in conditions, such as:

• Obesity

• Cystic fibrosis

• Anorexia nervosa 

• Chronic renal

• Wasting syndrome (caused by HIV/AIDS)

On-demand digital service 

It’s all about speed. When you contact GE for service, our online engineers can electronically link to your system and work to quickly get you back up and running. If a field engineer needs to be dispatched, he or she will be prepared with a system diagnosis — and if required, have the right parts on hand. In addition, our applications specialists can reach out at your request to support or train. Ask a Company Representative how.

Dual-energy Vertebral Assessment

Dual-energy Vertebral Assessment (DVA) expands the clinical applications available for the Lunar Prodigy Primo bone densitometer. DVA provides rapid, dual-energy images of the AP and lateral spine allowing clinicians to visually assess the presence of vertebral deformations. Experts and radiologists agree: dual-energy is the preferred method for imaging the lateral spine.[3] More than 40% of women with normal or osteopenic BMD had a moderate or severe vertebral deformation seen with DVA.[4]

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.[5,6]
• A woman’s risk of an osteoporotic fracture is much higher than that of breast cancer, stroke and heart attack combined.[7,8,9,10] 

References:

1. C Simonelli, L Del Rio, N Binkley. Comparison of Spine BMD Measurements from DXA With and Without Leg Elevation. Abstract Published J Bone Miner Res (2004) 19 (Suppl 1):S364. Poster Presented at ASBMR Annual Meeting, October 2004. M Kamimura, H Hirabayashi, M Konishi, Q Zhou, HS Barden, H Kato Comparison of lumbar spine BMD and T-scores with conventional and OneScan leg positioning in a Japanese population. Presented at the 17th International Bone Densitometry Workshop, Kyoto Japan, November 2006 RH Nord, DL Ergun, KG Faulkner. Effect of patient positioning devices on bone density measurements. Abstract Published J Bone Miner Res (2002) 17 (Suppl 1): S313. Poster Presented at ASBMR Annual Meeting, September 2002.

2. Bonnick SL, Nichols DL, Sanborn CF, Payne SG, Moen SM, Heiss CJ (1996) Right and left proximal femur analyses: Is there a need to do both? Calcif Tissue Int 58:307-310.

3. Rea JA, Li J, Blake GM, Steiger P, Genant HK, Fogelman I, 2000 Visual Assessment of vertebral deformity by X-ray absorptiometry: a highly predictive method to exclude vertebral deformity. Osteoporosis Int 11:660-668.

4. Patrick K. Burke, M.D. – Osteoporosis Diagnostic and Treatment Center, Retreat Hospital, Richmond, Virginia

5. 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.

6. 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

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

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

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

10. 2005 new cases women of all ages. American Cancer Society, Cancer Facts & Figures 2005, Atlanta, GA; American Cancer Society, 2005.

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