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From: Ultra-short echo time MR imaging in assessing cartilage endplate damage and relationship between its lesion and disc degeneration for chronic low back pain patients

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Subtracting a 3D ultrashort Echo Time (UTE) image acquired at short TE of 0.03 ms (a) by the one acquired at long TE of 6 ms (b), a resultant subtracted 3D UTE image (c) of a lumbar spine with relatively normal cartilage endplate (CEP) is presented at sagittal view. Well structural CEP (denoted by white arrow) is hyperintense as well as adjacent hypointense vertebral endplate. The effect of nucleus pulposus, annulus fibrosus was removed after image subtraction

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BMC Medical Imaging

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