Axial MRI of the Lumbar Spine - T2 weighted image at the L4 level. On this view centered over the L4-L5 disk, one can see well the cauda equina surrounded by CSF (note that CSF is bright on ...

Lumbar Spinal Stenosis: T2-weighted MRI of the Lumbar Spine; (Left) Mid-sagittal view; (Right Top) Axial scan at the mid-L3 level; (Right Bottom) Axial scan at the L3-L4 disk level.Note the central ...

Investigators showed that diagnosis was improved in 56% of patients with lumbar radiculopathy when a new type of oblique MRI fast spin-echo scan of the lumbar neuroforamen was used.David B ...

Axial rotations of lumbar vertebrae have been measured both in asymptomatic individuals and those with back pain. Rotations that are greater than normal might indicate degenerative spinal instability.

A repeat lumbar MRI revealed diffuse disk desiccation, loss of disk height at L1–S1, diskitis at L1–L2, end-plate erosions at L2–L3 and L4–L5 (Figure 1A and 1B), and vertebral body edema.

The axial view in the upper left shows a cross ... Whereas the sensitivities of CT and MRI for lumbar spinal stenosis exceed 70%, 12,13 it is important to recognize that more than 20% of ...

Knowing a patient's symptoms helps radiologists in lumbar spine MRI interpretation and diagnosis, according to a study published today in Radiology , a journal of the Radiological Society of North ...