Abstract #1405

Lipidic Profile of Bone Marrow in Peripheral Skeleton Sites Assessed by 1H-MRSpectroscopy: Looking for Instrumental Biomarkers of Osteoporosis.

Giulia Di Pietro¹,², Vincenzo Vinicola³, Guglielmo Manenti⁴, Mauro Rebuzzi², Gisela Hagberg⁵, Salvatore Masala⁴, Giovanni Simonetti⁴, Marco Bozzali⁵, Silvia Capuani²,⁶

¹IIT@Sapienza, Physics Department, Rome, Italy; ² Sapienza University of Rome, Physics Department, Rome, Italy; ³Rehabilitation Hospital IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy; ⁴Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Interventional Radiology, University of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy; ⁵Neuroimaging Laboratory, Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy; ⁶CNR IPCF UOS Roma, Physics Department, Rome, Italy

Lipidic profile of bone marrow was investigated, using 1H-MRS at 3T, in the calcaneus and the femoral neck of postmenopausal healthy , osteopenic and osteoporotic women.