Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine

Table 1 Bone marrow diffusion and DXA results

From: The role of Fast spin-echo T2-weighted and diffusion-weighted imaging for spine bone marrow changes evaluation in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis

Patient group	Mean age (years)	BMD status	Mean T- scores	Mean ADC (× 10^–3 mm²/s)	Mean SNR FSE T2-w
Group 1 (N = 18)	54.78 ± 2.34	Normal	− 0.59 ± 0.27	0.58 ± 0.02	5.61 ± 0.32
Group 2 (N = 25)	59.64 ± 4.52	Osteopenia	− 1.65 ± 0.35	0.36 ± 0.05	5.48 ± 0.55
Group 3 (N = 58)	63.10 ± 5.17	Osteoporosis	− 2.78 ± 0.61	0.24 ± 0.06	6.63 ± 0.67

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