Developing focal construct technology for in vivo diagnosis of osteoporosis

Greenwood, C, Rogers, K, Wilson, M, Lyburn, I, Evans, P ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9831-1461 and Prokopiou, D, 2019. Developing focal construct technology for in vivo diagnosis of osteoporosis. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1151: 012020. ISSN 1742-6588

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Abstract

Osteoporosis is a prevalent bone disease around the world, characterised by low bone mineral density and increased fracture risk. Currently, the gold standard for identifying osteoporosis and increased fracture risk is through quantification of bone mineral density (BMD), using dual energy X-ray absorption (DEXA). However, the use of BMD to diagnose osteoporosis is not without limitation and arguably the risk of osteoporotic fracture should be determined collectively by bone mass, architecture and physicochemistry of the mineral composite building blocks. Rather than depending exclusively on the 'mass' of bone, our previous research investigated predicting the risk of fracture using 'bone quality'. The work highlighted that the material properties of OP tissue differ significantly to that of 'normal' bone and for the first time reported the clinical value of new biomarkers (obtained from X-ray scatter signatures) for fracture risk prediction. Thus, in order to improve fracture prediction models, diagnostic tools need to be developed which not only measure bone mineral density, but also bone quality.

This pilot study builds on our previous work and aims to develop a new technology, Focal Construct Technology (FCT), which is hoped can measure XRD signatures in vivo. Our previous work was performed entirely with interrogating probes applied in transmission mode. This has some disadvantages that would be overcome were reflection mode employed. This study involves the creation of unique, high impact data with the potential to form the basis of a new generation of medical diagnostic instrumentation. A systematic series of conventional reflection mode ex vivo experiments were performed in which bone specimens were examined through increasing thicknesses of overlaying muscle/fat/skin. Further, we applied FCT to these geometries. This had not previously been attempted and required some initial modelling to ensure correct topologies of the hollow beams. The results from this study suggest it may be possible to obtain the parameters in vivo with the same precision as those obtained within the laboratory when using FCT.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Creators:	Greenwood, C., Rogers, K., Wilson, M., Lyburn, I., Evans, P. and Prokopiou, D.
Publisher:	IOP Publishing
Date:	January 2019
Volume:	1151
ISSN:	1742-6588
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1088/1742-6596/1151/1/012020 DOI 1387865 Other
Rights:	© Copyright 2020 IOP Publishing. Content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI. Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
Divisions:	Schools > School of Science and Technology
Record created by:	Linda Sullivan
Date Added:	12 Nov 2020 08:48
Last Modified:	31 May 2021 15:13
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/41624

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