Quantification of lumbar intradiscal deformation during flexion and extension, by mathematical analysis of magnetic resonance imaging pixel intensity profiles

Spine

Volumn 22, Issue 18, 1997, Pages 2066-2072

  Brault, Jeffrey S ^a   Driscoll, David M ^a   Laakso, Liisa L ^a   Kappler, Robert E ^a   Allin, Edgar F ^a,b   Glonek, Thomas ^a  

^a MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Extension flexion; Hydration intervertebral discs; Kinematics; Lumbar spine; Magnetic resonance imaging; Mathematical modeling; Nucleus pulposus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE DEFORMATION; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT MOBILITY; LUMBAR DISK; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADULT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; KINETICS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR;

EID: 0031429135     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-199709150-00002     Document Type: Article

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