Hounsfield Units on Lumbar Computed Tomography for Predicting Regional Bone Mineral Density

Abstract

Bone mineral density (BMD) is a very important factor in spinal fusion surgery using instrumentation. Our aim was to investigate the utility of Hounsfield units (HU) obtained from preoperative lumbar computed tomography (CT) to predict osteoporosis coupling with data of quantitative computed tomography (QCT) and dual X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA).

Keywords

• hounsfield unit
• bone mineral density (bmd)
• dual x-ray absorptiometry (dexa)
• quantitative computed tomography (qct)
• osteoporosis