Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic and Relaxometric Determination of Bone Marrow Changes in Anorexia Nervosa

Abstract

Fat depletion and excess of tissue water in the bone marrow in anorexia nervosa can be quantified by 1H magnetic resonance spectroscopy and relaxometry. The distribution of the pathological changes in the lumbar and femoral marrow follows the pattern of normal bone marrow conversion from hematopoietic to cellular during childhood.