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Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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Radiology of Osteoporosis

Part of the book series: Medical Radiology ((Med Radiol Diagn Imaging))

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Abstract

Although bone mineral density (BMD) is one of the most important contributing factors to bone strength and fracture risk, studies have shown that changes in bone quality and structure independent of BMD influence both bone strength and propensity to fracture. The influence of these other factors may partially explain the observed overlap in bone mineral measurements between patients with and patients without osteoporotic fractures. Thus, several new emerging techniques have been aimed at quantifying trabecular bone structure in addition to BMD. In recent years a number of studies have been performed that applied magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to the study of trabecular bone and bone quality. Two MRI techniques have been most thoroughly studied in osteoporosis:

  • High-resolution MRI (HR-MRI)

  • T2* decay characteristics

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  1. Department of Radiology, University of California San Francisco, 400 Parnassus Avenue, A367, Box 0628, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA

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    Stephan Grampp MD

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Link, T.M. (2008). Magnetic Resonance Imaging. In: Grampp, S. (eds) Radiology of Osteoporosis. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68604-0_12

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