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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 21.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomech. 2014 Nov 22;48(2):361–369. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2014.11.010

Figure 1. Quantification of imaging parameters, transition zone slope, and T2* intensity area, from T2* relaxation profile in the coronal plane of region of interest (ROI) 3.

Figure 1

A: Traditional T2 weighted MR image of healthy disc. B: Same disc imaged with T2* protocol and five ROI's identified. C: Coronal profile of healthy disc with plot of average T2* relaxation time (ms) overlaid. D: Corresponding quantification of transition zone slope and T2* intensity area of the healthy disc. Reprinted with permission (Ellingson et al., 2013).