Fig 1.
Sagittal line scan diffusion images of the spine of a 28-year-old female volunteer. Line scan diffusion image with diffusion coding (left, b = 650 s/mm2) and without diffusion coding (middle, b = 5 s/mm2) are shown together with the corresponding map of the mean diffusion coefficient (right). No ghosting artifacts or missing lines are apparent. Note the strong diffusion difference between the intervertebral disks and the vertebral bodies.