Quantification of muscle fat in patients with low back pain: Comparison of multi-echo MR imaging with single-voxel MR spectroscopy

Radiology

Volumn 266, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 555-563

  Fischer, Michael A ^a   Nanz, Daniel ^a   Shimakawa, Ann ^b   Schirmer, Timo ^c   Guggenberger, Roman ^a   Chhabra, Avneesh ^d   Carrino, John A ^d   Andreisek, Gustav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DUAL GRADIENT ECHO MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FAT CONTENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVERTEBRAL ARTICULATION; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MULTIPLE GRADIENT ECHO MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SINGLE VOXEL MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; LOW BACK PAIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84873404384     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.12120399     Document Type: Article

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