NIHR funding (2008-2012) allowed us to establish a specialised suite of bone scanning devices which is housed in the CRF of the Centre for Biomedical Research. Our research scanning facilities consist of the following devices:
• Discovery A DXA densitometer (Hologic Inc. Bedford, WA, USA)
• XtremeCT HR-pQCT scanner (Scanco Medical AG, Zurich, Switzerland)
• XCT2000 pQCT scanner (Stratec Medinzintechnik, Pforzheim, Germany)
• Metriscan phalangeal densitometer (Alara Inc. Fremont, CA, USA)
• DXL Calscan heel densitometer (Demetech AB, Täby, Sweden)
• Achilles Insight heel ultrasound densitometer (GE Medical, WI, USA)
• QUS-2 heel ultrasound densitometer (Metra/Quidel Corp. CA, USA)
• DBM Sonic Bone Profiler (IGEA s.r.l, Carpi, Italy)
The purchase of the XtremeCT was made possible through NIHR Capital Investment funding and, as a result, the Bone BRU is now at the leading edge of micro-architectural bone imaging and evaluation.
