Open AccessReliability of Hounsfield Unit for Assessing Asymmetrical Vertebral Bone Mass in Adult Degenerative Scoliosis
Author(s) -
LinYu Jin,
XinJin Su,
Shuai Xu,
Hai-Ying Liu,
Xinfeng Li
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
international journal of general medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.722
H-Index - 36
ISSN - 1178-7074
DOI - 10.2147/ijgm.s368718
Subject(s) - medicine , hounsfield scale , intraclass correlation , lumbar , osteoporosis , nuclear medicine , orthodontics , radiology , computed tomography , clinical psychology , psychometrics
Hounsfield Unit (HU) has been used to investigate the asymmetrical vertebral bone mass in patients associated with adult degenerative scoliosis (ADS). Therefore, there is an inevitable need to evaluate the performance of HU values in ADS subjects.