The DEXA machine takes a picture of your bones and calculates their density. Physicians commonly choose DEXA because it uses a low level of radiation (about the same as you would get on a flight from ...

Dose data for the types of equipment currently employed for DXA is care, in comparison to data available for other radiographic modalities. For a spine plus femur DEXA scan, the effective dose varies ...

The separate scans test the ability of the technologist to correctly position the patient and the computer boxes. The two tests should show the same results for the volunteer’s bone density. You ...

Typically no additional shielding is required in the walls. The exposure to the person next door depends on the workload, the type of DXA scanner, the distance from the table axis to the walls and ...

DXA machines use tightly controlled beams of X-rays to measure body composition. Results for bone mineral content, lean body mass, and percent fat may be obtained.

One patient, musician and filmmaker James Hester, from Clevedon, says the information he discovered from his first scan has probably extended his life. The machine is called DXA Body Composition ...

BMC, Lean, & Fat must be entered in order to calculate any Z-score. DXA Z-scores are available only for ages 8 - 20 yrs. In certain browsers(Firefox, Chrome), you may ...