High signal intensity of intervertebral calcified disks on T1-weighted MR images resulting from fat content

Skeletal Radiology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 80-86

  Malghem, Jacques ^a   Lecouvet, Frédéric E ^a   François, Robert ^b   Vande Berg, Bruno C ^a   Duprez, Thierry ^a   Cosnard, Guy ^a   Maldague, Baudouin E ^a  

^a CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

^b QUEEN ASTRID MILITARY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ankylosing spondylitis; Ankylosis; Calcification; Intervertebral disk; MRI; Spine

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ADULT; AGED; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTHRODESIS; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; BONE TISSUE; CALCIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FAT CONTENT; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISEASE; LIGAMENT CALCINOSIS; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPINE FUSION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCINOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPINAL FUSION; SPONDYLITIS, ANKYLOSING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 12944261912     PISSN: 03642348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00256-004-0843-1     Document Type: Article

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