Our DELPHI bone densitometer is a high performance micro X'Ray scanning machine. It is utilized fan beam technology and used solely for the detection of osteoporosis, the thinning of bones that can lead to crippling and life' threatening fractures mainly in older women. It is now a disease that can be effectively treated with several medicines and therefore its early detection is important. Accordingly, DEXA technology has become the world standard screening test for osteoporosis.

Osteoporosis affects 28 million Americans - 20% of who are male and 80% of who are female. Half the women over the age of 50 have an osteoporosis' related bone fracture. The bones most prone to breaking are in the hip, wrist, and spine. Each year nearly 200,000 people suffer hip fractures. Of that number, up to 20% die within a year of the incident. Those who survive are often incapacitated, require long'term nursing home care, and are in pain.