Signal characteristics of normal adult bone marrow in whole-body diffusion-weighted imaging.

CONCLUSION: The signal intensity of bone marrow varies with age and gender in DW images. ADC and the T2 shine-through effect contributed to the bone marrow signal intensity in DW images, and the latter effect may predominate.
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Source: Acta Radiologica - January 18, 2016 Category: Radiology Authors: Cui FZ, Cui JL, Wang SL, Yu H, Sun YC, Zhao N, Cui SJ Tags: Acta Radiol Source Type: research