A new magnetic resonance imaging analysis method for the measurement of disc height variations

Spine

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 563-570

  Boos, Norbert ^a,c   Wallin, Ake ^a   Aebi, Max ^b   Boesch, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

creep diurnal variation; disc height reproducibility; intervertebral disc; MRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEIGHT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 0029869578     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-199603010-00006     Document Type: Article

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