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The lumbar spines of two healthy volunteers were imaged with 3D UTE using five different resolutions to determine the best imaging protocol. Then, four patients with low back pain were imaged with both the 3D UTE sequence and CT to investigate agreement between the imaging methods. Two other patients with low back pain were then imaged with the 3D UTE sequence and clinical conventional T<jats:sub>1<\/jats:sub>-weighted and T<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>-weighted fast spin-echo (FSE) MRI sequences for qualitative comparison. The 3D UTE sequence together with post-processing showed high contrast images of bone and high intermodality agreement with CT images. 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