Assessment of alveolar bone marrow fat content using 15 T MRI

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OBJECTIVES: Bone marrow fat is inversely correlated with bone mineral density. The aim of this study is to present a method to quantify alveolar bone marrow fat content using a 15 T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner.

STUDY DESIGN: A 15 T MRI scanner with a 13-mm inner diameter loop-gap radiofrequency coil was used to scan seven 3-mm diameter alveolar bone biopsy specimens. A 3-D gradient-echo relaxation time (T1)-weighted pulse sequence was chosen to obtain images. All images were obtained with a voxel size (58 µm3) sufficient to resolve trabecular spaces. Automated volume of the bone marrow fat content and derived bone volume fraction (BV/TV) were calculated. Results were compared with actual BV/TV obtained from micro-computed tomography (CT) scans.

RESULTS: Mean fat tissue volume was 20.1 ± 11%. There was a significantly strong inverse correlation between fat tissue volume and BV/TV (r = -0.68; P = .045). Furthermore, there was a strong agreement between BV/TV derived from MRI and obtained with micro-CT (interclass correlation coefficient = 0.92; P = .001).

CONCLUSIONS: Bone marrow fat of small alveolar bone biopsy specimens can be quantified with sufficient spatial resolution using an ultra-high-field MRI scanner and a T1-weighted pulse sequence.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2018

Erschienen:

2018

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:125

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Oral surgery, oral medicine, oral pathology and oral radiology - 125(2018), 3 vom: 02. März, Seite 244-249

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Cortes, Arthur Rodriguez Gonzalez [VerfasserIn]
Cohen, Ouri [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Ming [VerfasserIn]
Aoki, Eduardo Massaharu [VerfasserIn]
Ribeiro, Rodrigo Alves [VerfasserIn]
Abu Nada, Lina [VerfasserIn]
Costa, Claudio [VerfasserIn]
Arita, Emiko Saito [VerfasserIn]
Tamimi, Faleh [VerfasserIn]
Ackerman, Jerome L [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 13.11.2018

Date Revised 01.03.2019

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

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10.1016/j.oooo.2017.11.016

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NLM279554982