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 Zhang1,3
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
This study aims to evaluate the abnormality and deterioration of paraspinal
muscles with T2 mapping and to quantitatively compare T2 value differences of
lumbar paraspinal muscle between patients with low back pain and healthy
participants .
Figure 1 ROIs of the bilateral multifidus (MF) and erector
spinae(ES) respectively were drawn on T2mapping imaging