Measurement of vertebral bone marrow proton density fat fraction in children using quantitative water-fat MRI.

Stefan RuschkeAmber PokorneyThomas BaumHolger EggersJeffrey H MillerHouchun H HuDimitrios C Karampinos

Published in: Magma (New York, N.Y.) (2017)

VBM development in children showed a sex-independent cross-sectional increase of PDFF correlating with the natural logarithm of age and an intra-individual decrease of PDFF from the lumbar to the cervical region in all age groups. The present results demonstrate the feasibility of using a 3D TIMGRE sequence for PDFF assessment in VBM of children.

Keyphrases

young adults
bone marrow
cross sectional
adipose tissue
high resolution
minimally invasive
fatty acid
computed tomography
body composition
diffusion weighted imaging
electron transfer