A new diagnostic score to detect osteoporosis in patients undergoing lumbar spine MRI

Michele Bandirali,Giovanni Di Leo,Giacomo Davide Edoardo Papini,Carmelo Messina,Luca Maria Sconfienza,Fabio Massimo Ulivieri,Francesco Sardanelli

A new diagnostic score to detect osteoporosis in patients undergoing lumbar spine MRI

2015

Michele Bandirali
Giovanni Di Leo
Giacomo Davide Edoardo Papini
Carmelo Messina
Luca Maria Sconfienza
Fabio Massimo Ulivieri
Francesco Sardanelli

Objectives Signal intensity of lumbar-spine at magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) correlates to bone mineral density (BMD). Our aim was to define a quantitative MRI-based score to detect osteoporosis on lumbar-spine MRI.

Keywords:

Radiology
Bone mineral
Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry
Pathology
Osteoporosis
Nuclear medicine
Lumbar spine MRI
Magnetic resonance imaging
Medicine
Ultrasound
Interventional radiology
Neuroradiology
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