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 ...

For a spine plus femur DEXA scan, the effective dose varies from less than 1 μSv to about 15 μSv. In pencil beam systems the dose is generally less than 1 μSv, while values between 1 to 10 μSv have ...

Physicians commonly choose DEXA because it uses a low level of radiation (about the same as you would get on a flight from New York to Los Angeles), but detects low levels of bone loss much better ...

To get more accurate readings, investigators at UAB and elsewhere turn to DXA (pronounced DEXA) scanners. “The problem is that a DXA scanner is well over $100,000, so not many places outside of major ...

The BHOF recommends having a baseline dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scan, a painless measure of the calcium in your bones, at age 65 for women and 70 for men. But people at higher risk ...

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 ...