T1 ρ Magnetic resonance imaging quantification of early lumbar intervertebral disc degeneration in healthy young adults

Spine

Volumn 37, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 1224-1230

  Zobel, Bruno Beomonte ^a   Vadalà, Gianluca ^a   Del Vescovo, Riccardo ^a   Battisti, Sofia ^a   Martina, Francesca Maria ^a   Stellato, Luigi ^a   Leoncini, Emanuele ^b   Borthakur, Arijitt ^c   Denaro, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LUMBAR DISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; YOUNG ADULT; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION; LINEAR MODELS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856113698     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e31824b2450     Document Type: Article

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