Does chemical shift imaging offer a biomarker for the diagnosis and assessment of disease severity in multiple myeloma?: A cross-sectional study

• Published in: Medicine (Baltimore) Vol. 100; no. 6; p. e24358
• Main Authors: Takasu, Miyuki, Tanitame, Keizo, Baba, Yasutaka, Akiyama, Yuji, Tamura, Takayuki, Kondo, Shota, Maeda, Shogo, Sakai, Akira, Awai, Kazuo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 12.02.2021
• Subjects: Aged; Bone Marrow - diagnostic imaging; Bone Marrow - pathology; Case-Control Studies; Cross-Sectional Studies; Female; Humans; Lumbar Vertebrae - diagnostic imaging; Lumbar Vertebrae - pathology; Magnetic Resonance Imaging - methods; Male; Multiple Myeloma - diagnosis; Multiple Myeloma - diagnostic imaging; Multiple Myeloma - pathology; Observational Study; Retrospective Studies; Severity of Illness Index

To investigate whether chemical shift imaging (CSI) is useful for differentiating myelomatous infiltration from hematopoietic bone marrow (BM) and for quantitatively assessing disease severity.In this retrospective study, spinal MRI, including a sagittal iterative decomposition of water and fat with...