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After the first echo image of MR-UTE\n technique was integrated with the contour, the image entered UTE cartilage endplate, fibrous ring and osseous endplate. The integrity of the intervertebral disc from the above and below the intervertebral disc and the correlation of the structural endplate with the integrities of cartilage\n endplate, fibrous ring and osseous endplate under double echo sequence were analyzed, and the correlation analysis of the two categorical variables was conducted using rank correlation analysis. Under the MR-UTE sequence, there was no statistical significant difference in structural integrity\n constituent ratio (intact structure only on one side, incomplete structure on both side) between the non-low back pain group and the low back pain group (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &gt; 0.05), the proportion of complete structure disappearance was lowest, and the proportion of partial structure disappearance\n was highest; there was a significant difference in the structural integrity of fibrous ring between the non-low back pain group and the low back pain group (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &lt; 0.05), there was a statistical significant difference in structural integrity of fibrous rings between the two groups (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n &lt; 0.05); there was a statistical significant difference in pain degree between the partial structure disappearance group and the complete structure disappearance group (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &lt; 0.05). There was no significant difference in pain degree between the groups (intact structure only on one\n side and incomplete structure on both side); conventional MR images showed no significant difference in the intervertebral disc degeneration degree between the non-low back pain group and low back pain group (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &gt; 0.05), and the intervertebral disc degeneration degree had no significant\n correlation with the lower back pain. MR-UTE sequence and T2WI sequence showed that there was a correlation between different intervertebral disc degeneration degrees and the structural integrity distributions of cartilage endplate, osseous endplate and fibrous rings in two groups of patients\n with or without low back pain (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &lt; 0.05). Whether low back pain exists or not has little effect on the intervertebral disc degeneration degree on T2WI. MR-UTE double echo sequence scan reveals that the intervertebral disc degeneration degree is positively related to the integrity\n and integrity distribution of cartilage endplate, fibrous ring and bone endplate.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1166\/jmihi.2021.3360","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,12,24]],"date-time":"2020-12-24T04:52:02Z","timestamp":1608785522000},"page":"817-821","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Study of the Feasibility of Conventional MR Images and Magnetic Resonance (MR)\/Ultra-Short Echo Time (UTE) Technique in the Evaluation of Lumbar Disc Degeneration in the Axial Plane"],"prefix":"10.1166","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Peng","family":"Tang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Judicial Authentication Institute of People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA), Beijing, 100120, China"}]},{"given":"Jingtao","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Forensic Medicine, Southern Medical University, 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