A promising imaging technology that measures bone health at the microscopic level could help doctors detect osteoarthritis in its early stages and guide the development of new therapies, suggests preliminary research being presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM).
“The technology we are developing allows us to see very fine detail in the mesh-like microstructure of bone – known as trabecular bone – which currently can’t be assessed in patients,” said Wojciech B. Zbijewski, Ph.D., a medical physicist and instructor in the department of biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
