Table 1.

Correlation analysis for IVD, vertebral bone and spinal cord crosstalk.

		μCT (injury site)	μCT (adjacent site)	μCT (far field)	EP T2 (large ROI)	EP T2 (small ROI)	Spinal cord SubP
NP T2 signal	Pearson r	0.645	0.612	0.454	0.082	−0.046	−0.708
	p-value	0.044 *	0.060	0.188	0.746	0.856	0.007 *
Whole IVD T2 signal	Pearson r	0.502	0.559	0.242	0.452	0.490	−0.552
	p-value	0.140	0.093	0.500	0.060	0.039 *	0.051
Relative IVD height	Pearson r	0.362	0.531	0.355	0.117	−0.076	−0.635
	p-value	0.304	0.114	0.314	0.644	0.764	0.020 *
Degeneration score	Pearson r	−0.424	−0.781	−0.545	0.072	0.283	0.560
	p-value	0.295	0.022 *	0.163	0.807	0.327	0.073
Spinal cord SubP	Pearson r	−0.714	−0.672	−0.312	−0.112	0.311
	p-value	0.047 *	0.068	0.451	0.716	0.300

^*indicates significant correlation with p<0.05