Magnetic resonance imaging of the spinal marrow: Basic understanding of the normal marrow pattern and its variant

Figure 7 Sagittal T1W (A), T2W (B) and axial T2W images of 63-year-old osteoporotic female showing heterogeneous lumbar vertebral marrow signal with diffuse increased high-signal intensities due to higher fat content. There is a focal round patch of increased signal on both T1 and T2 weighting in LV1 body with small punctuate areas of low signal intensities; seen unchanged from previous 2 magnetic resonance examinations (not shown here) confirmed to be a small typical vertebral hemangioma.