Guanajuato, Gto., January 5, 2017.- With the purpose to avoid that the patients with osteoporosis expose to X-rays –which can cause cancer—the researcher of the University of Guanajuato (UG), Dr. María Isabel Delgadillo Cano, explores the technique of ultrasonic resonance.

With this research, they seek to know the efficiency of the ultrasonic resonance technique, if it proves to determine with certainty when the bones are in optimal conditions, the patients would avoid the noxious effects of radiation.

The teacher of the Department of Physical Engineering explained that this technique allows to take the resonance of a solid body stimulating in such way that is the least contact with the simulator.

"In this research, a doctorate student collaborates, Paulina Alicia Irais Hernández Becerra, and the major degree student Diana Guadalupe Ramírez Infante; in addition, Dr. Miguel Vargas Luna, Dr. Raquel Huerta and Dr. Diana Sáenz of the Polytechnic", mentioned Dr. Delgadillo Cano.

Osteoporosis, disease that thins and weakens the bones, is an international health problem and there is a technique, of bone densitometry to diagnose it, through X-rays (radiation), but it has the inconvenience that the prolonged exposistions can cause cancer.

Reason why they are looking for alternative methods as the one Dr. María Isabel explores, who explained that research began with phantasms –a simplified representation of the bone model—that help know features of the original study object.

Dr. Delgadillo Cano, professor at the Division of Sciences and Engineering of Campus León of UG, is a member of the National Researchers Systems Level I, and member of the Academic Body "Medical Physics and Biomedical Instrumentation."