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Placement of regions of interest (ROI). The regions of interest were placed at the center of the lumbar spine from L3-5, and the obtained standardized uptake values were averaged (Vertebral-SUV). The ROI for femoral bone marrow was placed on the caudal side of the greater trochanter, where the cortical bone was not visually observed in the same place in Femoral-SUV and BM-CT number.
