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Christopher J Hanrahan1, Lubdha M Shah
1Department of Radiology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, 84132, USA. christopher.hanrahan@hsc.utah.edu
Objective:
The purpose of this article is to review the structure of bone marrow and the differential diagnosis of bone marrow pathology on the basis of T1-weighted MRI patterns.
Conclusion:
Bone marrow is an organ that is evaluated routinely during MRI of the spine, particularly lumbar spine evaluation. Thus, it is one of the most commonly performed MRI examinations. T1-weighted MRI is a fundamental sequence in evaluating spinal marrow, and an understanding of T1-weighted MR signal abnormalities is important for the practicing radiologist.
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