Fig 1.
MRI images of the lumbar spine in a 13-year-old girl.
(A) Coned-down sagittal image of the lumbar spine showing the degree of lumbar lordosis measured as the angle between the superior endplate of L1 and the inferior endplate of L5. (B) Axial image outlining the measurement of vertebral CSA at the third lumbar vertebra.
Table 1.
Ages, anthropometric characteristics, and MRI measures of vertebral morphology and degree of lumbar lordosis in 80 healthy adolescent boys and girls.
Table 2.
Correlation matrix of age, anthropometric characteristics, and MRI measures of vertebral morphology and degree of lumbar lordosis in 40 healthy adolescent boys and 40 adolescent girls.
Table 3.
Multivariate regression models for the prediction of lumbar lordosis without (A) and with (B) the inclusion of vertebral CSA.