Lumbar intervertebral discs T2 relaxometry and T1ρ relaxometry correlation with age in asymptomatic young adults

Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 402-412

  Menezes Reis, Rafael ^a   Salmon, Carlos E Garrido ^a   Bonugli, Gustavo P ^a   Mazoroski, Debora ^a   Tamashiro, Mauricio H ^a   Savarese, Leonor G ^a   Nogueira Barbosa, Marcello Henrique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aging; Intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration; Lumbosacral region; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Spine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AGE; AGING; AGING RELATED CHANGES; ANNULUS FIBROSUS; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEHYDRATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISEASE; LUMBAR DISK; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; NUCLEUS PULPOSUS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELAXATION TIME; RELAXOMETRY; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 84994556292     PISSN: 22234292     EISSN: 22234306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21037/qims.2016.08.01     Document Type: Conference Paper

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