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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 30 Senile osteoporosis Imaging Research Keywords: osteoporosis Osteoporosis (osteoporosis, OP) is a kind of low bone mass and bone tissue is characterized by micro-structural damage, leading to brittle bones prone to fracture the increase of systemic bone diseases. At present, China has officially entered the aging society, the elderly population is the high incidence of osteoporosis in the crowd demand for diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis resulting increase dramatically. Since osteoporosis can be prevented, and can delay its occurrence, development, and therefore its early diagnosis and prediction becomes particularly important. Diagnosis of osteoporosis in many different ways, through the patient’s symptoms, bone biochemical markers and bone mineral density measurement methods to assess bone strength changes. In recent years, it was recognized that bone mineral density of bone mineral content only from the point of view, in part reflecting bone strength. Bone strength also depends on the quality of bone and bone metabolism update. The bone quality is good or bad depends largely on bone structure, bone structure, mainly within the cortical bone thickness and pore density, cancellous bone shape, thickness, degree of connectivity and anisotropy of the bone micro-architecture. Among them, bone micro-structure of the most important, it seems to be the determinants of bone fragility independent of bone mineral density and the role 〔1〕. Therefore, in the diagnosis of osteoporosis, not only to measure whether the reduced bone mineral density, but also observe the bone structure, taking into account the assessment of bone metabolism updated in order to fully evaluate the risk of fracture 〔2〕. A bone mineral content (BMC) or bone mineral density (BMD) determination method 1.1 X-ray film measurements Commonly used part of it is spine lateral radiography and hands orthotopic film. Naked eye, X-ray assessm