- International standard in spine bone mineral densitometry by DXA and qCT
- Must-have for multi-center studies or single place testing
- Three vertebrae with different bone mineral content
The European Spine Phantom (ESP) with its anthropomorphic design is the ideal tool for quality control and constancy tests of spine bone mineral density in DXA and qCT.
The phantom is the standard for quality control - accuracy and repeatability - for spinal BMD quantification for more than two decades. Its closely anthropomorphic design with three internal lumbar vertebrae inserts allows to utilize standard patient protocols, both, in DXA and qCT.
The main body of the phantom consists of water-equivalent resin. The three lumbar spine inserts contain different well-defined amounts of calcium hydroxyapatite (CaHA) to cover the entire physiological range of spongious and cortical bone densities of all age groups.
It allows checking reproducibility and accuracy of the following quantities:
- area bone mineral density (area BMD) in g/cm² for DXA
- trabecular and cortical volume bone mineral density (vol. BMD) in g/cm³ for qCT
- cortical thickness in mm for qCT
- positioning accuracy in qCT
Extension rings in different sizes to simulate obese patients are available upon request.
