Quantitative analysis of diurnal variation in volume and water content of lumbar intervertebral discs

Clinical Anatomy

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-8

  Roberts, Neil ^a   Hogg, David ^a   Whitehouse, Graham H ^a   Dangerfield, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cavalieri method; Intervertebral disc; Lumbar spine; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Sleep; Stereology; T2 relaxation time; Volume

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUMBAR DISK; LUMBAR SPINE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEUS PULPOSUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOLOGY; WATER CONTENT;

ADULT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WATER; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 0031975180     PISSN: 08973806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2353(1998)11:1<1::AID-CA1>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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