SAN FRANCISCO — Use of a multi-society task force’s descriptive definitions of abnormal lumbar disc morphology demonstrated a high level of agreement between imaging diagnosis and ...

One or more views can be requested; most commonly an "antero-posterior" picture is taken where you face the X-ray beam and the spine is shown from the front to the back, and a "lateral" picture where ...

Nearly all the patients with low back pain referred by their general practitioner for a lumbar magnetic resonance imaging scan (MRI) had abnormal findings on the imaging, with seven in 10 showing ...

A total of 1,454 X-ray images were analyzed using the scientists' system. Performance rates for the lumbar and femur of patients with bone density loss, or osteopenia, were 86.4% and 84.1% ...