Speaker
Inaya Correa Barbosa Lima
(Nucl. Instrum. Lab., Rio de Janeiro)
Description
The osteoporosis is a pathology that assails the bones, defined as systemic
skeletal disease characterized by a decrease in the bone mass and
deterioration of the microarquitecture with the increase of the bone fragility
and more susceptibly to fractures. The ovariectomized process in female rats
has been used frequently as animal model of experimental osteoporosis,
because it supplies similar data to those observed in the adult skeleton post
menopause. In this context, the aim of this study was study the changes of
trabecular and cortical microarchitecture in normal and osteoporotic bone
samples by 2D and 3D images using non destructive techniques such as x-
ray microtomography, x-ray microfluorescence by synchrotron radiation,
Raman spectroscopy and MeV.
Author
Inaya Correa Barbosa Lima
(Nucl. Instrum. Lab., Rio de Janeiro)
