Fifth lumbar vertebra: volume in real people

The volume of this structure (fifth lumbar vertebra) measured on the CT scans of 11 people: from 14 to 81 mL, median 60 mL.

Person Sex Age Volume (mL)
1 Female 77 not in this scan
2 Male 58 67
3 Male 62 72
4 Female 41 52
5 Female 58 60
6 Female 93 81
7 Male 73 65
8 Male 9 27
9 Male 33 78
10 Female 21 49
11 Male 15 41
12 Female 5 14
Median 60

fifth lumbar vertebra

Fifth lumbar vertebra: volume in real people
3D models: TotalSegmentator CT dataset v3.0.0, subject s0616: Wasserthal J, Breit H-C, Meyer MT, et al. TotalSegmentator: Robust Segmentation of 104 Anatomic Structures in CT Images. Radiology: Artificial Intelligence 2023;5(5):e230024, https://doi.org/10.1148/ryai.230024; dataset https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22688904, licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); surfaces extracted from the segmentation masks and simplified by the 3D Anatomy project.