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Vail spine specialist, Dr. Donald Corenman (http://neckandback.com | 970-479-5895) is a spine surgeon and spine expert practicing at the Steadman Clinic in Vail, CO. Dr. Corenman has extensive experience in diagnosing and treating all conditions associated with the neck, back and spine. He created this video to help patients with understanding an MRI of the normal lumbar spine.

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This video—Understanding an MRI of the Normal Lumbar Spine—is designed for the primary care physician or specialist such as a Chiropractor or Physical Therapist to use to learn how to read and understand the MRI of the lumbar spine. The image shown in the video represents a normal scan. In the scan all of the structures scanned are normal in appearance and not injured or degenerative. When you can recognize what normal looks like, you can determine what an abnormal finding is. This video: Understanding an MRI of the Normal Lumbar Spine, is the companion video to the next two videos in the series: MRI of Lumbar Herniated Disc and MRI of a Lumbar Degenerative Spondylolysthesis with Spinal stenosis.

This video is designed to give you a basic understanding of the anatomy of the lumbar spine and then to identify the basic changes that occur with degenerative disc disease, herniated discs and spinal stenosis.

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[neckandback]

On the T2 scan, fat shows up as a white signal as does water. On the STIR (inversion recovery), the fat signal is suppressed but water is still white. On the T1 signal, water is black and fat is white.

[neckandback]

Mertt03, sorry for the delay. Dr. Corenman responds to all questions like this in his forum. Please post this question in AskSpineDoc (dot) com under the "Reading X-rays, MRIs and CT Scans" section. Thanks!

[vanceSteven]

with a samurai sword, literally! very informative. thanks!

[cxxopr]

@tonysopranoscigar That's true for the T2 SE. On the TSE sequence, fat becomes white because of the continueus 180 RF-pulses prolonging the T2 decay of fat specifically.

[CamaroTara]

great presentation, very easy to understand and super helpful! thanks!

[tonysopranoscigar]

I thought that with T2 weighted scans, fat showed up as being darker as opposed to white?

[redshaftedflicker]

It will also demonstrate a coronal (front to back) view if scanned in that particular plane. MRI rocks!!!!

[Mertt03]

Dear doctor when making a mri scan from the SACRUM is it also possible to make a scan from the AP or PA view for example to examine the dorsal sacrum foramina?

or are mri scans only in lateral and axial view?

[Mertt03]

Dear doctor coreman is it also possible to make a Mri from AP or PA view.

For example mri of the Sacrum is it also possible to scan from the AP or PA view to examine the Dorsal sacral foramina?

[michanita]

Great presentation, very clear & informative ;-)