Figure 3. 43-year-old man with traumatic vertebral body compression fracture. (a) Sagittal T₁ weighted spin echo MR image (TR=500 ms, TE=8 ms) showing L1 vertebral body signal hypointensity with respect to the normal bone marrow. (b) Sagittal fast STIR MR image (TR=3220 ms, TE=65 ms, TI=150 ms, echotrain length=8) showing L1 vertebral body signal hyperintensity with respect to the normal bone marrow.