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Radiographic images can provide quantitative as well as qualitative information if they are subjected to densitometric analysis. Using modern video-digitizing techniques, such densitometry can be readily accomplished using relatively inexpensive computer systems. However, such analyses are made more difficult by the fact that the density values read from the radiograph have a complex, nonlinear relationship to bone mineral content. This article derives the relationship between these variables from the nature of the intermediate physical processes, and presents a simple mathematical method for obtaining a linear calibration function using a step wedge or other standard.
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Martin, R.B., Papamichos, T. & Dannucci, G.A. Linear calibration of radiographic mineral density using video-digitizing methods. Calcif Tissue Int 47, 82–91 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02555991
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