[Normal bone marrow: dynamic aspects in magnetic resonance imaging].
The bone marrow is a complex organ that contains fat and nonfat cells, the proportion of which varies greatly with age and in the different bones of the skeleton. Magnetic resonance imaging provides information on the composition of the medullary cavity of any given bone and on the distribution of red and yellow marrow in the skeleton. The wide spectrum of appearances of the normal bone marrow at MR imaging will be reviewed. The purpose of this paper is to determine the MR appearance of the bone marrow, to illustrate the phenomenon of marrow conversion and to familiarize the readers with the complex parameters that interfere with the MR appearance of normal bone marrow.
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Département d'imagerie médicale, Cliniques universitaires Saint Luc, Université catholique de Louvain, 10, avenue Hippocrate, 1200-Bruxelles, Belgique. vandeberg@rdgn.ucl.ac.be
Malghem
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Lecouvet
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Maldague
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