An update on Quantitative Imaging for Osteoporosis 2019

An update on Quantitative Imaging for Osteoporosis

Ali Ghasem-Zadeh(PhD)

• Senior Research Fellow, Departments of Endocrinology and Medicine, Austin Health, The University of Melbourne
• Project Director, The Australian Institute for Musculoskeletal Science (AIMSS)
• Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University

 “The stability and immutability of dry bones and their persistence over the centuries, and even millions of years after the soft tissues have turned to dust, gives us a false idea of bone during life.  Its fixity after death is in sharp contrast to its ceaseless activity during life.”

Bone is complex composite structure, ranging in scale from nano-meters at the cellular level, to hundreds of microns at organic matrix and mineral level to millimetres at the whole bone level.