Abstract #3192

Quantitative T2 parametric value in assessment of abnormal lumbar paraspinal muscle in patients with low back pain

Yinqi Liu¹, Huiting Deng¹, Weiyin Liu², and Kun Zhang^1,3

¹Department of Radiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha, China, ²MR Research, GE Healthcare, Beijing, China, ³College of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha, China

Chronic low back pain (CLBP) has been reported to be associated with low back dysfunction with the characteristics of decreased cross-section area (CSA) of paraspinal muscles and increased adipose content. In our study, T2 value at L4/L5 multifidus muscle was significantly higher in LBP group than in HCs. The multifidus muscle is the most medial in the low back extensor group and has the maximum strain stress when spinal movement and balance maintenance, so it might easily cause the abnormality of the low back muscle group. T2 mapping could be a good predictor of detecting minimal variation of multifidus muscles.

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