METHOD FOR DETERMINING MUSCLE MASS INDEX AT LEVEL OF Th VERTEBRA ACCORDING TO COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY DATA IN ABSENCE OF INFORMATION ABOUT PATIENT'S HEIGHT Russian patent published in 2023 - IPC A61B6/03 

FIELD: medicine; radiology.

SUBSTANCE: used to determine the muscle mass index. The area of skeletal muscles measured on an axial section of computed tomography at the level of the middle of the Th₁₂ vertebral body is determined. Then the height of the thoracic spine is determined on sagittal sections of computed tomography as the shortest distance between the most cranially located point of the Th₁ vertebral body and the plane passing through the most caudal point of the Th₁₂ vertebral body perpendicular to the scanning axis. Then, taking into account the obtained indicators, the muscle mass index is determined using a given formula.

EFFECT: determining the muscle mass index at the level of the Th₁₂ vertebra according to computed tomography data in the absence of data on the patient’s height due to the combination of methods of the claimed invention.

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