Fig. 1From: Regional differences between superficial and deep lumbar multifidus in patients with chronic lumbar spine pathologya Example MRI used to calculate fat signal fraction. Blue circles indicate approximate location where biopsies were taken from and fat signal fraction measurements were made. b Fat signal fraction map of MRI in (a). Red indicates voxels classified as muscle, yellow indicates voxels classified as fat. c Histogram of pixel intensities in (a) across a spectrum of fat (yellow) and muscle (red). Thresholds were defined on a patient-by-patient basis as the intersection between the Gaussian distribution of fat and waterBack to article page