Yu Song1, Qingwei Song2, Yingkun Guo1, Gang Ning1, and Xuesheng Li1
1Department of Radiology, West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, 2the First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China
Diabetes is a metabolic disease with a risk of fracture due to osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is a progressive metabolic bone lesion characterized by a decrease in bone mass per unit volume, which results in increased risk of bone fractures. Noninvasive and reliable assessment of osteoporosis is essential for clinical diagnosis and treatment. Studies have reported that precise measurement of fat content in the bone marrow is a biomarker for quantifying osteoporosis. IDEAL-IQ is a method used for quantitative measurement of fat fraction and iron content related parameters by multi-echo acquisition[1].
