Manually defining regions of interest when quantifying paravertebral muscles fatty infiltration from axial magnetic resonance imaging: a proposed method for the lumbar spine with anatomical cross-reference

© 2017 The Author(s). Background: There is increasing interest in paravertebral muscle composition as a potential prognostic and diagnostic element in lumbar spine health. As a consequence, it is becoming popular to use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to examine muscle volume and fatty infiltratio...

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Main Authors: Crawford, Rebecca, Cornwall, J., Abbott, R., Elliott, J.
Format: Journal Article
Published: BioMed Central Ltd. 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/71460