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Abstract
Further studies should assess validity of T1 and T2 separately to evaluate validity of inverted magnitude and phase contrast in differentiation between osteosclerotic and osteolytic lesions.
Our study didn’t include cervical and upper dorsal spine lesions due to the mentioned significant artifacts that we couldn’t overcome using our MR machine. Other studies should try to produce better images regarding the cervical and upper spine on different MR machines with different parameters.
Very few studies share our same objectives and study frame/ design. We hopefully recommend that future studies would target same topic to confirm and validate our study results.
Quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) is a widely used post-processing technique to provide biochemical assessment of the lesions for different biomarkers. Unfortunately, longer echo time, large raw data and high resolution images are required for the post-processing to successfully happen. It is widely used in brain applications, yet we failed to use it here in spine lesions as our patients are suffering from severe back pain and generalized fatigue resulting in exam time shorter than we needed.
An important next step will be to test the clinical potential of susceptibility-weighted MRI with regard to the Spinal Instability