{"id":198026,"date":"2012-06-27T02:24:42","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T07:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=198026"},"modified":"2012-06-28T02:36:43","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T07:36:43","slug":"u-t-professor-gets-funds-for-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=198026","title":{"rendered":"U-T Professor Gets Funds for Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=198027\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-198027\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/06\/Neil-Dong-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Neil Dong\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-198027\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2013 An assistant professor of health and kinesiology at The University of Texas at Tyler, Dr. Neil Dong, has been awarded nearly $385,000 from the National Institute of Health to examine fracture risks of the human spine. Effective July 1, Dong will collaborate with the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases on the three-year grant.<\/p>\n<p>According to Dr. Dong, \u201cThis project is about using stochastically treated DXA [Dual-energy X-ray] images to improve the prediction of fracture risks of the human spine. This technique uses a simple, routinely acquired DXA scan to identify people at high risk of spine fractures based on the measurement of both bone mineral density and its<br \/>\nDistribution.\u201d He plans to incorporate UT Tyler student research within the biomechanics laboratory for the project\u2019s duration.<\/p>\n<p>Dong holds a master of science in engineering mechanics from Tsinghua University in China and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Columbia University. Among honors received, Dong earned presentation as well as science and technology achievement awards while in Beijing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2013 An assistant professor of health and kinesiology at The University of Texas at Tyler, Dr. Neil Dong, has been awarded nearly $385,000 from the National Institute of Health to examine fracture risks of the human spine. Effective July 1, Dong will collaborate with the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=198026\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">U-T Professor Gets Funds for Study<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 17:49:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198026"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198227,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198026\/revisions\/198227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}