title: DTI of trabecular bone marrow.
abstract: The development of NMR diffusion imaging and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) has offered the possibility of studying the porous structures beyond anatomical imaging. In fact, random molecular motions, within tissue components, probe tissue microstructures. Up to now, the DTI method was mainly used to investigate cerebral morphology and study white matter diseases. In this study, it has been applied to trabecular bone marrow analysis to obtain structural information on spongy bone tissue. Our first results show that DTI could represent an important tool in studying the microstructural architecture of the trabecular bone as well as the microarchitecture of porous media.
authors.affiliation: Istituto Nazionale Fisica della Materia, Centro di Ricerca e Sviluppo SOFT (INFM CRS-SOFT) c/o Universita' di Roma La Sapienza, I-00185 Roma, Italy.
authors.forename: Cristina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rossi
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Capuani
authors.forename: Fabrizio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Fasano
authors.forename: Marcella
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alesiani
authors.forename: Bruno
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Maraviglia
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016880:Anisotropy; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D002417:Cattle; D004058:Diffusion; D038524:Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging; D016062:Porosity