Are time-intensity curves helpful in differentiating between benign vertebral compression fracture and vertebral metastasis?

Reply to Guermazi et al: “Are time-inten

Reply to Guermazi et al: “Are time-intensity curves helpful in differentiating between benign vertebral compression fracture and vertebral metastasis?”

✍ Tiffany Ting-Fang Shih; Wei-Tsung Chen 📂 Article 📅 2003 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 36 KB

To the Editor: We appreciate the opportunity to respond to the comments of Guermazi et al regarding our recent article (1) in the Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. The main results of the studies of Kopka et al ( 2) and Earls et al (3) were that the signal-to-noise and contrast-to-noise ratio