Differentiation of Acute Osteoporotic and Malignant Compression Fractures of the Spine: Use of Additive Qualitative and Quantitative Axial Diffusion-weighted MR Imaging to Conventional MR Imaging at 3.0 T

Abstract

The addition of axial DW imaging to a conventional MR imaging protocol improved diagnostic accuracy in the differentiation of acute osteoporotic from malignant compression fractures by measuring ADCs in the solid portion with careful use of a small ROI.