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Normal Spine: X-ray and CT Anatomy

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The spine consists of 24 separate vertebrae of the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine, the fused 5 vertebrae of the sacrum, and the 4 fused vertebrae of the coccyx. This chapter summarizes the appearance of skeletal spine anatomy on CT and illustrates the intricate relationship of the various spinal elements.

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Some images in this chapter were created using content from BodyParts3D/Anatomography published under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.1 Japan license: “BodyParts3D, © The Database Center for Life Science licensed under CC Attribution-Share Alike 2.1 Japan.”

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium

    Tim Van den Wyngaert

  2. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (MICA – IPPON), University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium

    Tim Van den Wyngaert

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  1. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium

    Tim Van den Wyngaert

  2. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

    Gopinath Gnanasegaran

  3. Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Luzerner Kantonsspital, Lucerne, Switzerland

    Klaus Strobel

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    Gopinath Gnanasegaran

  2. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium

    Tim Van den Wyngaert

  3. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (MICA–IPPON), University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium

    Tim Van den Wyngaert

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Van den Wyngaert, T. (2023). Normal Spine: X-ray and CT Anatomy. In: Van den Wyngaert, T., Gnanasegaran, G., Strobel, K. (eds) Clinical Atlas of Bone SPECT/CT. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26449-8_76

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