MR Multi-parametric approach to evaluate osteoporosis at 3T: T2, T2*, ADC, Gi and 1H-MRS measurements in healthy, osteopenic and osteoporotic subjects

Fig.1 The peculiar behaviour of ADC and T2* measured values in the calcaneus spongy bone as function of Marrow fat content percentage (Mfc%). Their linear correlations (R coefficient), and their functional linear dependency y(x) are also showed. Blue diamonds indicate Healthy subjects, green squares indicate Osteopenic subjects and red triangles indicate Osteoporotic ones. MR Multi-parametric approach to evaluate osteoporosis at 3T: T2, T2*, ADC, Gi and 1H-MRS measurements in healthy, osteopenic and osteoporotic subjects.