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Ex B Match Imaging Modality to Pathologic Condition

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)   Soft tissues of lumbar spine (ie, spinal cord and intervertebral disk spaces)  
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Myelography   Structures within subarachnoid space  
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Nuclear Medicine   Inflammatory conditions such as Paget's disease, neoplastic processes, osteomyelitis, ankylosing spondylitis, metastases  
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Computed Tomography (CT)   fractures, disk disease, neoplastic disease, spina bifida, spondylolisthesis, spondylolysis  
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Bone Densitometry   Osteoporosis due to long-term steroid use, hyper-parathyroidism, estrogen deficiency, advancing age, smoking, sedentary lifestyle, alcoholism  
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Myelography   requires an injection of contrast medium via a lumbar or cervical puncture to visualize the soft tissue structures of the spinal canal  
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Nuclear Medicine   a radiopharmaceutical-tagged tracer element is injected that concentrates in areas of increased bone activity, demonstrating a 'hot spot' in the image  
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Computed Tomography (CT)   evaluation of the vertebral column  
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Bone Densitometry   non-invasive measurement, accurate within 1% and radiation skin dose is low  
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)   herniated nucleus pulposus (HNP), Spina bifida  
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