What is the BMAD of the Calcaneus Bone?

[freq87]

Hi,

I am really stuck and could really use help.
Can someone please tell me the density of calcaneus bone. I can't seem to find it in any textbook or journal articles.

Please if you know let me know the journal or book you got it from.


thank you so much

 

[NascentOxygen]

Hi freq87.

For a Korean population, there's a table here: http://synapse.koreamed.org/Synapse/Data/PDFData/0063JKMS/jkms-20-1011.pdf

hBMD seems to be around 0.4 - 0.6, for a particular Amazonian population, according to tables towards the end of this article: http://www.pinniped.net/madimenos2011a.pdf

The units? Mentioned in the first article.

 

[freq87]

I need the density in g/cm^3 or kg/m^3? please thanks

 

[freq87]

Hi,

I am really stuck and could really use help.
Can someone please tell me the density of calcaneus bone. I can't seem to find it in any textbook or journal articles.

Please if you know let me know the journal or book you got it from.

The units for the density needs to be in g/cm^3. I can't seem to find it anywhere really worried.

thank you so much

 

[jedishrfu]

Try this paper:

http://www.ajronline.org/doi/pdf/10.2214/ajr.161.3.8352120

or this one:

http://bjr.birjournals.org/content/76/902/123.full.pdf

There are other papers as well:

https://www.google.com/#q=calcaneus+bone+density&safe=off

 

[freq87]

I need it in g/cm^3 or kg/m^3 ?

These are all the results from dexa which calculates density in g/cm^2

 

[NascentOxygen]

I believe the gm/cm^3 figure is known as bone mineral apparent density (BMAD).