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Fig. 3 | BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

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From: Risk factors for subsidence of titanium mesh cage following single-level anterior cervical corpectomy and fusion

Fig. 3

Using standard picture archiving and communication system (PACS), an elliptic region of interest (ROI) encapsulating only cancellous bone was drawn on three non-sequential axial images: a just inferior to the superior endplate, b mid-body, and c just superior to the inferior endplate. The software automatically calculated the mean Hounsfield Units (HU) value of each ROI. The average of HU values on 3 slices was regarded as the HU for individual vertebral body

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BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

ISSN: 1471-2474

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