Abstracts tagged "low dose CT scans"

Abstract Number: 0906 • ACR Convergence 2021
Measurement of Vertebral Hounsfield Units in Low Dose Computed Tomography – a Reliable Methodology for Assessing Bone Mineral Density at the Vertebral Level in Patients with Radiographic Axial Spondyloarthritis
Mary Lucy Marques¹, Nuno Pereira da Silva², Désirée van der Heijde³, Floris van Gaalen¹ and Sofia Ramiro¹, ¹Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ²Radiology Department, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, ³Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Meerssen, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Bone loss paradoxically coexists with bone formation in radiographic axial spondyloarthritis (r-axSpA). Assessing bone mineral density (BMD) in r-axSpA poses challenges, namely because of…