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Title
Benign versus metastatic vertebral compression fractures: combined diffusion-weighted MRI and MR spectroscopy aids differentiation.
Authors
Rumpel, Helmut; Chong, Yi; Porter, David A; Chan, Ling L
Abstract
To determine the residual lipid fraction in fractured vertebrae by (1)H MR spectroscopy (MRS) and its confounding effect on differentiating benign from metastatic compression fractures of the spine using apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) obtained by diffusion-weighted read-out-segmented echo-planar imaging.