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1 From the Departments of Diagnostic Radiology and Organ Imaging (J.F.G., D.K.W.Y., G.E.A.), Community and Family Medicine (S.Y.S.W., T.C.Y.K., J.W.), and Orthopaedics and Traumatology (P.C.L.), Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, 30-32 Ngan Shing St, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China. Received November 15, 2005; revision requested January 4, 2006; revision received January 23; accepted March 2. Supported by a Direct Grant for Research, Chinese University of Hong Kong, reference no. 2004.1.066. Address correspondence to J.F.G. (e-mail: griffith{at}ruby.med.cuhk.edu.hk).
Purpose: To prospectively study the relationship among vertebral marrow fat content, marrow diffusion indexes, and marrow and erector spinae muscle perfusion indexes in female subjects with varying bone mineral density.
Materials and Methods: Institutional study approval and informed consent were obtained. Dual x-ray absorptiometry, proton magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopy, diffusion-weighted MR imaging, and dynamic contrast material–enhanced MR imaging of the lumbar spine and erector spinae muscle were performed in 110 women (mean age, 73 years; range, 67–84 years). Marrow fat content, marrow apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC), and perfusion indexes (maximum enhancement and enhancement slope) of marrow and erector spinae muscle were compared among three bone density groups (normal, osteopenic, and osteoporotic). The t test comparisons and Pearson correlations were applied.
Results: Seven subjects were excluded, which yielded a final cohort of 103 subjects: 18 with normal bone density, 30 with osteopenia, and 55 with osteoporosis. Vertebral marrow fat content was significantly increased in the osteoporotic group (67.8% ± 8.5 [standard deviation]) when compared with that of the normal bone density group (59.2% ± 10.0, P = .002). Vertebral marrow perfusion indexes were significantly decreased in the osteoporotic group (enhancement slope, 1.10%/sec ± 0.51) compared with those of the osteopenic group (1.45%/sec ± 0.51, P = .01) and normal bone density group (1.70%/sec ± 0.52, P < .001). Erector spinae muscle perfusion indexes did not decrease as bone density decreased. The ADC of vertebral marrow did not change with bone density.
Conclusion: The subjects experienced a decrease in vertebral marrow maximum enhancement and enhancement slope and an increase in marrow fat content as bone density decreased. The reduction in perfusion indexes occurred only within the vertebral body and not in the paravertebral tissues supplied by the same artery.
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