Bone density measurement

BONE AND METABOLIC HEALTH

The best in DXA technology. The most advanced DXA system with high image sharpness, precision and image resolution for research applications.

Lunar iDXA is designed to provide you with a high level of clinical safety and reliability, coupled with a state-of-the-art design, for measuring bone density and body composition across all body types. When searching for answers to promote your patients’ health, reliable data is of utmost importance. With Lunar iDXA, GE Healthcare provides its most advanced system that delivers the data and images you need. Whether you are assessing bone density, fracture risk, metabolism, child development or possible sarcopenia, Lunar iDXA gives you clear insight into the inside of the body.

Clarity

Pin-sharp, high-resolution images and precise measurements enable you to make reliable diagnoses. The extra-sharp images produced by the Lunar iDXA system make assessment particularly easy. Lunar iDXA offers you the latest generation of DXA technology from GE Healthcare. For vertebral body examination, it offers image quality comparable to X-rays, enabling the detection and classification of vertebral deformities in terms of their aetiology, degree and shape, but with a lower radiation dose.

Precision

Lunar iDXA detector technology enables extremely precise bone measurement, allowing you to track changes that were previously too small to detect. This enables better management of treatment plans and thus promotes patient compliance.

Technologie

Das Lunar iDXA-System mit direkt-digitalem Detektor mit versetzten Halbleiterblöcken, engwinkliger Fan-Beam-Technologie und Multi-View Image Reconstruction (MVIR) sorgt für erstklassige Präzision. Dadurch werden vergrösserungsbedingte Fehler korrigiert, die bei vergleichbaren Weitwinkel-Fan-Beam-Systemen auftreten.

Versatility

Lunar iDXA is equipped with a wide range of clinical applications. The enCORE software platform helps you reap the greatest benefits of DXA technology for bone health or body composition research projects by measuring fat and lean mass distribution and creating trends for metabolic health applications.

DXA SYSTEMS FOR DIRECT DIGITAL BONE DENSITY MEASUREMENT

Proven and reliable DXA system with a large number of installations in more than 120 countries. Thanks to its scalability, the system is suitable for basic requirements in the field of bone and metabolic medicine as well as for advanced applications.

If you want to perform reliable dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) examinations in your practice, Prodigy is ideal for you with its first-class precision and low radiation exposure. You can rely on Prodigy to provide accurate data on body composition and soft tissue, including bone mineral density (BMD), fat-free tissue, fat tissue and fat percentage. At the same time, Prodigy helps you optimise patient care and workflows in your practice.

Prodigy DXA systems help improve patient care and workflow in your practice with the following benefits:

CONFIDENCE

The most reliable DXA system Combined with DXA technology, you can’t go wrong with Prodigy. With narrow-angle fan-beam technology, a robust design that has been continuously optimised over a period of more than 30 years, over 14,500 units installed worldwide and hundreds of peer-reviewed publications in leading journals, you can be confident that Prodigy can support you in providing first-class patient care.

EFFICIENCY

Optimal patient and practice management Prodigy provides you with efficient, accurate analysis of bone mineral density (BMD) and other body compositions. Prodigy’s advanced features not only help you to easily perform the DXA scanning process, but also to manage patient data and operations more effectively.

TECHNOLOGY

Third-generation DXA technology developed over more than 30 years: Narrow-angle fan beam technology with MVIR – eliminates magnification errors1 LYSO crystal detector offers efficiency and excellent energy resolution

INCREASE THE PERFORMANCE OF DXA AND DISCOVER THE ADDED VALUE OF TBS FOR YOUR EVERYDAY CLINICAL PRACTICE!

TBS iNsightTM – advanced imaging software for bone densitometry (DXA) – improves the prediction of osteoporotic fractures.

The result – expressed as the Trabecular Bone Score (TBS) – is based on a patented algorithm that evaluates spatial variations in grey levels in the DXA scan of the AP spine. TBS provides an indirect but highly correlated index of bone microarchitecture. TBS predicts fractures independently of bone mineral density (BMD), clinical risk factors and FRAX®.

TBS is most significant in patients with osteopenic/normal BMD values who have low TBS values and consequently have a higher risk of fracture, and in patients whose fracture risk is close to the intervention threshold. In addition, TBS shows potential in patients with secondary osteoporosis: while BMD is often only of limited use in identifying patients with secondary OP and diagnosing their increased risk of fractures, TBS appears to be helpful in detecting changes in trabecular bone microarchitecture and thus the increased fracture risk associated with these diseases.

TBS iNsight software

• calculates a microarchitecture index in routine clinical practice
• displays a monitoring trend curve for patient follow-up data
• including LSC
• enables retrospective analysis of patient DXA scans
• enables automatic data export communicates with PACS systems via a DICOM module (optional)
• integrates FRAX adjusted for TBS displays patient reports in different languages
• offers online training and certification
• includes the TBS-iNstats module to facilitate your patient management
• is calibrated using a specific TBS phantom.

Clinical validation

• Several hundred peer-reviewed publications
• Integrated into international and national guidelines (e.g. ISCD, ESCEO, DVO, GRIO, NOGG)
• TBS adjusted for FRAX
• TBS adjusted for FRAX
• Thousands of TBS users worldwide
• Ethnic-specific reference curves for men and women derived from large study cohorts (e.g. NHANES) integrated into the software.

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POWERFUL NEW CLINICAL APPLICATIONS FOR INSIGHTS INTO BONE AND BODY COMPOSITION WITH NEW DXAVISION™ TECHNOLOGY

DXAVision™ offers BMD and body composition in a simple, unified workflow. The DXAVision™ scan is designed to improve operator efficiency and enable up to 40% faster scanning.

• AP spine – measures bone density in the vertebral bodies L1 to L4
• Single femur – measures bone density in one femur in the femoral neck region
• Dual femur* – measures both thigh bones in a single scan to determine the weaker femur
• Whole body scan* – BMD assessment of the entire skeleton
• Body composition* – total and regional measurement of fatty tissue and fat-free tissue, including the android and gynoid areas
• One Vision – multiple examination areas summarised in one report
• One Scan* – performs AP Spine and Dual Femur examinations; patients do not need to be repositioned between scans
• Forearm* – Measures the ulna and radius as an alternative measurement site
• Orthopaedics – Hip implant* – Software for evaluating the regions around an implant based on Gruen’s 19 zones
• Composer* – Display of examination results and evaluation of 10-year fracture risk according to individually selected guidelines
• AHA* – advanced hip analysis for recording geometric data, including hip axis length (HAL) and hip strength index
• Dual Energy Vertebral Assessment (DVA)* – lateral and frontal view of the spine (thoracic and lumbar spine) for morphometric representation and assessment of vertebral deformities
• Spinal geometry* – Automatically identifies and measures Cobb angles to measure spinal deformities
• ScanCheck *– Automatically detects possible acquisition and analysis errors and offers multimedia help. In the event of incorrect positioning, unusual anatomy, areas of high density and image errors, a warning message is sounded and corrective measures are recommended.
• Paediatric applications* – Skeletal assessment based on specific reference values for children/adolescents (under 20 years of age)
• Other specific applications* are available depending on the system type.