The main purpose of a DEXA scan is to measure bone marrow density. It can be used to look at the spine and all extremities, including arms, hands, fingers, legs, feet and toes.
In an abnormal technetium heart scan, hot spots reveal damage to the heart. The larger the hot spots, the poorer the patient's prognosis.
A bone scan, or x-ray is simply a different type of scan than an MRI. No kind of scan is better than another, it simply depends what the scan is trying to ascertain.
A head scan looks primarily at the brain and a sinus scan looks only at the sinuses in the face region.
Manual Scan was created in 1981.
The CPT code for a DEXA scan is 77080 for the axial skeleton and 77081 for the appendicular skeleton.
Bone density
The main purpose of a DEXA scan is to measure bone marrow density. It can be used to look at the spine and all extremities, including arms, hands, fingers, legs, feet and toes.
The DEXA bone scan exposes the patient to only a small amount of radiation-about one-fiftieth that of a chest x ray, or about the amount you get from taking a cross-country airplane flight.
v82.81- screening for osteoporosis
Cold spots on the scan, where no thallium shows up, indicate areas of the heart that are not getting an adequate supply of blood. Cold spots appearing both at rest and during exercise may indicate areas where the heart tissue.
There are a few different tests which are used to check for osteoporosis. The most common is the DEXA scan. Other methods are blood tests and bone densitometry.
It is for a DEXA scan, which is used to measure a woman's bone density..if she has the beginnings of, or a more advanced case of osteoporosis.
.8072 g/cm^3
sun spots are cold
A normal thallium scan shows healthy blood flow through the coronary arteries and normal perfusion of the heart muscle, without cold spots, both at rest and during exercise.
There are about four tests that are important in analyzing the body composition. These tests are the Dexa Scan, Hydrostatic weighing, and Bioelectric Impedance.