Open access
Oct 2026
Optimising Region of Interest Characteristics and Standardisation Methodologies for Lumbar Magnetic Resonance Imaging Vertebral Bone Quality Scoring: Reproducibility, Precision, and Validation for Thoracolumbar Fragility Fractures.
STUDY DESIGN Retrospective multi-cohort methodological and validation study. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of region of interest (ROI) size, placement, and calibration on MRI-derived vertebral bone quality (VBQ), and to assess the performance of VBQ methodologies for fragility fracture discrimination. SUMMARY OF...
Omar Lubbad, W. Mahmood, Yumna Saleem et al.
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