Assessment of whole spine vertebral bone marrow fat using chemical shift-encoding based water-fat MRI.

Thomas BaumSamuel P YapMichael DieckmeyerStefan RuschkeHolger EggersHendrik KooijmanErnst J RummenyJan S BauerDimitrios C Karampinos

Published in: Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI (2015)

Whole spine vertebral bone marrow fat could be reproducibly assessed by using chemical shift-encoding based water-fat MRI and showed anatomical variations.

Keyphrases

bone marrow
adipose tissue
magnetic resonance imaging
fatty acid
mesenchymal stem cells
contrast enhanced
bone mineral density
diffusion weighted imaging
magnetic resonance