Clinical Radiology
Volume 65, Issue 5 , Pages 377-381 , May 2010

Evaluation of MR spectroscopy and diffusion-weighted MRI in detecting bone marrow changes in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis

  • G.Y. Tang

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationGuarantor and correspondent: G.Y. Tang, Department of Radiology, Affiliated Tenth People's Hospital of Tongji University, Shanghai 200072, China. Tel./fax: +86 21 66306242.
    • G.Y. Tang and Z.W. Lv contributed equally to this study.
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  • Z.W. Lv

      Affiliations

    • G.Y. Tang and Z.W. Lv contributed equally to this study.
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  • R.B. Tang
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  • Y. Liu
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  • Y.F. Peng
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  • W. Li
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  • Y.S. Cheng

Received 5 August 2009 ,Revised 28 November 2009 ,Accepted 1 December 2009.

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PII: S0009-9260(10)00065-6

doi: 10.1016/j.crad.2009.12.011

Clinical Radiology
Volume 65, Issue 5 , Pages 377-381 , May 2010

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