Direct Comparison of the Precision of the New Hologic Horizon Model With the Old Discovery Model

Previous publications suggested that the precision of the new Hologic Horizon densitometer might be better than that of the previous Discovery model, but these observations were confounded by not using the same participants and technologists on both densitometers. We sought to study this issue methodically by measuring in vivo precision in both densitometers using the same patients and technologists. Precision studies for the Horizon and Discovery models were done by acquiring spine, hip, and forearm bone mineral density twice on 30 participants.

Source: Journal of Clinical Densitometry - December 15, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: LaTarsha G. Whittaker, Elizabeth A. McNamara, Savoun Vath, Emily Shaw, Alan O. Malabanan, Robert A. Parker, Harold N. Rosen Source Type: research