Sentence examples for marrow diffusion from inspiring English sources

In this review, only very few studies about vertebral marrow diffusion in osteoporosis are reported, which show contradictory results.

The growth of mouse bone marrow colonies in agar diffusion chambers (ADCs) was evaluated using host mice injected with saline or with cyclophosphamide (CY) before chamber insertion.

The lesions appear as areas of increased diffusivity compared to the very low diffusion of normal background marrow (Fig 8c) [16, 26].

Osteochondral defects are deeper defects that involve subchondral plate disruption and diffusion of subchondral marrow contents into the defect site.

In particular, water diffusion in bone marrow and cancellous bone is affected by strong internal magnetic field gradients (G i ) generated by Δ χ [ 38, 39] and mainly localized at the interface between bone and water components [ 40].

In the setting of full-thickness chondral lesions, the subchondral bone is intact and there is no diffusion of subchondral marrow contents (MSCs, accessory cells and growth factors) into the defect site.

When diffusion-restricted fatty marrow is replaced with water containing tumour cells, these foci become conspicuous as areas of increased diffusivity.

In the context of bone marrow assessment by metastatic disease, diffusion-weighted (DW) MRI is increasingly being used because it is sensitive to bone marrow cell density, the relative proportions of fat and marrow cells, water content and bone marrow perfusion.

The gradient set available allowed for b factors as high as 0.03 μs/nm2 (30,000 s/mm2) at echo times as short as 42 ms. The methods were used to measure lipid diffusion coefficients within the marrow of rat paws in vivo, yielding lipid diffusion coefficients approximately two orders of magnitude smaller than typical tissue water diffusion coefficients.

Diffusion weighted imaging evaluates bone marrow composition and cellularity in multiple myeloma.

The pathophysiological background of the diffusion properties in vertebral bone marrow is not yet fully understood.