Programa computacional ODR-ATA para densitometria óssea baseado na densitometria radiografica

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Márcio Teixeira [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Densidade óssea; Sistemas de recuperação da informação; Informática na medicina; Osteoporose; Raios X; radiographic densitometry
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/128101

The radiographic densitometry is the technic that allows the evaluation of bone density, which uses references created in inert material (e.g. aluminium) especially to the investigation of bone modifications and illnesses such as osteoporosis. To increase technical precision some authors suggest the use of mathematical equations, such as the least squares method, Laplace's theorem, and the Rule of Sarrus allowing better results when achieving the adjustment of the curve that is characteristic of X-ray absorption by what is being studied. The usage of technologies such as Java, gnuplot, broffice calc, all of open code, allowed us to develop the software ODR-ATA, which is capable of analyzing and processing digital radiographic images and of calculating values of density close to the values of the object under study. Recently, various paid solutions have the support to perform radiographic densitometry. The purpose of this study is to develop a computational solution of free code to calculate bone density starting from the radiographic densitometry. In order to test the software I performed an experiment that started with the radiography of an aluminum ladder of unknown values. I performed 10 repetitions and evaluated steps 4,5,6,7, and 8 of the aluminum ladder. The results I achieved with ODR-ATA for steps of number 5,6,7, and 8 show a precision of 3,64%% and 3,63% respectively, which attest for the validity and reliability of the software in the discovery of the bone density obtained through the radiographic densitometry