Quantitative assessment of the lumbar intervertebral disc via T2 shows excellent long-term reliability

• Daniel L. Belavy ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: belavy@gmail.com

  Affiliations Deakin University, Spine Research Group, Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Geelong, Victoria, Australia, Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Institute of Radiology, Berlin, Germany, Division of Physiotherapy, Department of Applied Health Sciences, Hochschule für Gesundheit (University of Applied Sciences), Bochum, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9307-832X

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• Patrick J. Owen,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Deakin University, Spine Research Group, Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Geelong, Victoria, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3924-9375

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• Gabriele Armbrecht,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Institute of Radiology, Berlin, Germany

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• Martin Bansmann,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Krankenhaus Porz am Rhein, Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Krankenhaus Porz am Rhein, Cologne, Germany

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• Jochen Zange,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation German Aerospace Centre, DLR e.V., Linder Höhe, Cologne, Germany

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• Yuan Ling,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Imaging at Olympic Park, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• Regina Pohle-Fröhlich,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hochschule Niederrhein, Graphische Datenverarbeitung und Bildverarbeitung, Krefeld, Germany

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• Dieter Felsenberg †

  † Deceased.

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Institute of Radiology, Berlin, Germany

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