- Represents a general proximal femur of a 55-year-old white female
- For DXA constancy and acceptance testing
- Anthropomorphic design
The anthropomorphic femur represents a proximal femur of a 55-year-old white female. It is made of water-equivalent material enriched with calcium hydroxyapatite (CaHA) and embedded in a tissue-equivalent (at 120 kV) matrix.
Its anthropomorphic design allows checking reproducibility and accuracy of the following quantities:
- Bone mineral content (BMC) in g for DXA
- Bone mineral area density (aBMD) in g/cm² for DXA for different areas of the femur (femural neck, great trochanter, intertrochanteric region, Ward’s triangle)
- Bone mineral volume density (vBMD) in g/cm³ for qCT
- NHANES T- and Z-score
