Abstract #3218

L-spine Bone Marrow on Female: A Intravoxel Incoherent Motion MR Imaging Study

Teng Zhao¹, Yunsong Zheng¹, Hui Xu², Yuanyuan Chen¹, Yanbing Guo¹, Dong Han¹, and Nan Yu¹

¹Department of Medical Imaging, Affiliated Hospital of Shaanxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Xianyang, China, ²Department of Medical Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

To our knowledge, no studies have employed IVIM diffusion-weighted MRI to explore the variation trend of bone marrow in female. Whether gender difference exists in marrow structure is not well investigated. Therefore, we explored the diagnostic utility of IVIM diffusion-weighted MRI parameters in this context. We found that D, D* and f value showed a decreased trend with age, and the D, D* value of bone marrow in female was significantly higher than that in male except the f value. IVIM diffusion-weighted MRI was useful in the evaluation of bone marrow.

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