News 

• November 2011 > New publication in Jont Bone Spine dealing with the BMA use in Rheumatoid Arthritis study
  "Assessment of hand trabecular bone texture with high resolution direct digital radiograph in theumatoid arthritis : A case control study"
  A. Fouque-Aubert, S. Boutroy, H. Marotte, N. Vilayphiou, E. Lespessailles, C.L. Benhamou, P. Miossec, R. Chapurlat, from INSERM U1033 Lyon, CHU E. Herriot (Lyon, France), and CHR Orléans
  > The main results of this study are an additional validation of BMA texture parameters excellent reproducibility, on a population of 50 healthy controls and 59 late RA (under treatment), showing a significant decrease of "H" parameter and a significant correlation with the disease activity (DAS 28, ESR, CRP).
   
• "BMA-GP", the new version of BMA products dedicated to private market for clinical routine use, has been displayed at SFR congress in December 2010 in Paris.
   
• 15 August 2010 > New publication in Calcified Tissue
  "Assessment of bone microarchitecture in chronic kidney disease : a comparison of 2D bone texture analysis and high resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography at the radius and tibia".
  J. Bacchetta, S. Boutroy, N. Vilayphiou, A. Fouque-Aubert, P. Delmas, E. Lespessailles, D. Fouque, R. Chapurlat from INSERM U831 and CHU E. Herriot (Lyon, France)
  > This publication demonstrates a significant correlation between bone microarchitecture assessed by BMA (D3A Medical Systems), using radiographic texture analysis, and XTreme CT (Scanco Medical), using HR pQCT.
  It also confirms the excellent reproducibility of the fractal parameters with BMA at 2 novel anatomical sites (radius and tibia).
  These results correlated with the BMA capability to measure bone microarchitecture in vivo on the hip confirm BMA potential for evaluating bone structure in vivo.
  
• Rhumagerie 2010, Paris > Communication of Pr Piet Geusens*
  "Radiologie numérique Haute Résolution dans la polyarthrite rhumatoïde"
  * Department of Internal Medicine, Subdivision Rheumatology, Maastricht University Medical Center, The Netherlands
  & Biomedical Research Institute, University Hasselt, Belgium
  
• SFR 2009 > Communication of Pr Dougados team (Cochin Hospital, Paris) :
  "Evaluation de la texture osseuse péri-articulaire dans la polyarthrite rhumatoïde" - Revue du Rhumatisme 76
  M. Ghazi, S. Kolta, K. Briot, S. Paternotte, M. Dougados, C. Roux
  Poster