ArticleCalcified tissue international2023
MRI-based Vertebral Bone Quality Score for Osteoporosis Screening Based on Different Osteoporotic Diagnostic Criteria Using DXA and QCT.
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- The diagnostic value of MRI-based vertebral bone quality score for osteoporosis or osteopenia in patients undergoing lumbar surgery: a meta-analysis.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2024Pooled it
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- Vertebral bone quality score as a novel tool for bone mineral density assessment: which measurement approach is more accurate?European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2026Article
- Comparison of the value of VBQ scores for assessing abnormal bone mass based on DXA and QCT.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2026Article
- MRI-Based Vertebral Bone Quality Scoring for Opportunistic Osteoporosis Screening in Postmenopausal Women: A QCT-Referenced Study.Calcified tissue international · 2026Article
- A Novel Nomogram for Predicting Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fractures with Hounsfield Unit and Vertebral Bone Quality: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Clinical interventions in aging · 2026Article
- CT-based machine learning radiomics modeling to screen for lumbar spine osteoporosis.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Upregulation of lncRNA SSTR5-AS1 promotes osteoblast differentiation and reduces apoptosis.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2025Article
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Based Assessment of Bone Quality Using Vertebral Bone Quality (VBQ) Scores in Spine Surgery-A Critical Assessment and Narrative Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Emerging MRI-based spine scoring techniques targeting bone quality to assess osteoporosis, vertebral fracture risk, other spinal degenerative diseases, and post-surgical outcomes.La Radiologia medica · 2025Review
- A comparative study of bone density in elderly people measured with AI and QCT.Frontiers in artificial intelligence · 2025Article
- Diagnostic value of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based vertebral bone quality score for bone mineral density assessment: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2024Article
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Abstract
In this study, we aim to evaluate the correlation between T score measured by dual X-ray absorptiometry (DXA), volumetric bone mineral density (vBMD) derived from quantitative computed tomography (QCT) and MRI-based vertebral bone quality (VBQ), explore the diagnostic performance of VBQ in osteoporosis and determine the recognition value of VBQ in osteoporotic fracture in a relatively large cohort of elderly patients scheduled to undergo spinal surgery. A total of 260 patients were enrolled in the study. DXA and QCT were used to evaluate osteoporotic status. We calculated the lumbar VBQ score, analyzed the correlation between T score, vBMD and VBQ, and explored whether VBQ was an influential factor of bone quality and fracture by binary logistic regression as well as the diagnostic performance of VBQ in osteoporosis and fracture by ROC curve. VBQ was negatively correlated with vBMD and T score. (r = - 0.487 vs. r = - 0.220). The VBQ score was a risk factor for osteoporosis under the QCT diagnostic criteria (OR = 2.245, 95% CI 1.456-3.460) and osteoporotic fractures (OR = 1.496, 95% CI 1.097-2.040). It exhibited superior discriminant performance for osteoporosis diagnosed by QCT, with a cutoff value of 3.70 and an AUC of 0.7354. Its cutoff value for osteoporotic fractures was 3.72, and its AUC was 0.6717. In a cohort of elderly patients scheduled to undergo spinal surgery, the VBQ score was more strongly associated with vBMD than the T score and could identify patients with osteoporosis and corresponding vertebral compression fracture (VCF).
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