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Fig. 4B. 70-year-old woman with multiple metastatic vertebrae from lung cancer who died 12 days after MRI examination. Autopsy revealed necrosis in central regions and viable tumor cells in peripheral regions. T1-weighted spin-echo (TR/TE, 400/8) (A) and fat-suppressed T2-weighted fast spin-echo (3,000/105) (B) images show compression fractures of third and fourth lumbar vertebral bodies (arrows, A) as well as multiple metastatic vertebrae without compression fractures. First lumbar vertebra (arrowhead, A) shows normal signal intensity.