Assessment of vertebral fractures and edema of the thoracolumbar spine based on water-fat and susceptibility-weighted images derived from a single ultra-short echo time scan.

The proposed sUTE-Dixon-SWI methodology allows the removal of unwanted low-frequency phases and enables water-fat separation and SWI processing from a single complex UTE image. The methodology can be used for the simultaneous assessment of vertebral fractures and BME of the thoracolumbar spine.