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Comment
. 2003 Aug;24(7):1489-90; author reply 1490-1.

In re: characterization of benign and metastatic vertebral compression fractures with quantitative diffusion MR imaging

Robert V Mulkern, Richard B Schwartz
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In re: characterization of benign and metastatic vertebral compression fractures with quantitative diffusion MR imaging

Robert V Mulkern et al. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2003 Aug.
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Fig 1.
Simulated semilog plots of signal intensity versus b factor for marrow with varying fractions of fat for extended b factor range (top plots) and the limited b factor range used to date in most studies of vertebral marrow.
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Fig 2.
Plot of the apparent diffusion coefficient as a function of fat fraction in vertebral marrow when measured over the limited b factor range from 0 to 200 s/mm2.
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