Fig. 1.

73 years old female patient with multiple malignant (i.e. metastatic) vertebral body fractures of thoracic vertebrae TH4 – TH6. Hyperintense signal of fractures relative to normal vertebral bodies on all DWI images with b400 (Fig. 1A), b1000 (Fig. 1B) and b2000 (Fig. 1C). The signal intensity on ADC decreases with highest values on b = 0,400 ADC images (Fig. 1D), followed by b = 0,1000 ADC images (Fig. 1E) and lowest values on b = 0,2000 ADC images (Fig. 1F). The fracture is hypointense on T1w TSE images (Fig. 1G) and inhomogeneously hyperintense on STIR T2w images (Fig. 1H). For ROI measurements the vertebral body Th6 with the most intense STIR hyperintensity was chosen (Fig. 1H).