Abstract #0934
Bone Marrow Fat Quantification in calcaneus. Why not?
Silvia Capuani 1,2 , Giulia Di Pietro 2,3 , Guglielmo Manenti 4 , Vincenzo Vinicola 5 , Marco Bozzali 6 , and Umberto Tarantino 7
1
Physics Department, CNR-IPCF Roma Sapienza
University of Rome, Rome, Italy, Italy,
2
Center
for Life NanoScience@LaSapienza, Istituto Italiano di
Tecnologia, Rome, Italy, Italy,
3
Enrico
Fermi Center, Rome, Italy, Italy,
4
Department
of Diagnostic Imaging and Interventional Radiology, Tor
Vergata University of Rome, Rome, Italy, Italy,
5
4Rehabilitation
Hospital IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy,
Rome, Italy, Italy,
6
Neuroimaging
Laboratory Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy, Italy,
7
5Department
of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, PTV Foundation, Tor
Vergata University of Rome, Rome, Italy, Italy
The investigation of calcaneus bone-marrow might offer
the chance of reducing the risk of subjects
claustrophobic reactions, which remains a major source
of drop-outs in Magnetic Resonance (MR) examinations. In
this work the reliability and the potential of MR
Spectroscopy in calcaneus is discussed. MRS in calcaneus
can provide reliability fats estimation and L13/L43,
L13/L52+L53 may be reliable markers of osteoporosis.
Since bone-marrow fats in calcaneus are characterized by
a different metabolism compared to that of vertebral or
femoral sites, MRS in calcaneus performed in large
population, may increase our pathophysiological
understanding of osteoporosis from a metabolic point of
view.
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