Postdoctoral fellow in the School of Kinesiology, Christiana Raymond-Pope, PhD is the lead author of an article entitled “Assessing agreement of lateral leg muscle and bone composition using dual X-ray absorptiometry” in the Journal of Clinical Densitometry. 

This study examined a newly developed method of measuring upper leg anterior/posterior compartmental composition using a Hologic Horizon A dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA). Unlike a previous study in which agreement of lateral vs frontal leg composition measurements of equal area was reported utilizing the GE Lunar iDXA, agreement was not observed using the Hologic Horizon A DXA scanner. Therefore, lateral view assessment may not be reliably performed on DXA scanner models produced by different manufacturers.

Co-authors of the article include: Don Dengel, PhD, a professor of kinesiology and director of the Laboratory of Integrative Human Physiology (LIHP) and School of Kinesiology graduate, Tyler Bosch, PhD.