MR imaging of articular cartilage in the ankle: Comparison of available imaging sequences and methods of measurement in cadavers

Skeletal Radiology

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 749-755

  Tan, Terence C F ^a,b,c   Wilcox, Dennis M ^a,b   Frank, Lawrence ^a,b   Shih, Chunhsi ^a,b,d   Trudell, Deborah J ^a,b   Sartoris, David J ^a,b   Resnick, Donald ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cartilage; Joints; MR imaging

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ANKLE; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; BONE MARROW; CADAVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SYNOVIAL FLUID; TALUS; TIBIA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANKLE JOINT; ARTIFACTS; CADAVER; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 0029909318     PISSN: 03642348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002560050173     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Hodler J, Trudell D, Pathria MN, Resnick D Width of the articular cartilage of the hip: quantification by using fat-suppression spin-echo MR imaging in cadavers. AJR 1992; 159:351-355.
2. Recht MP, Kramer J, Marcelis S, Pathria MN, Trudell D, Haghighi P, Sartoris DJ, Resnick D. Abnormalities of articular cartilage in the knee: analysis of available MR techniques. Radiology 1993; 187:473-478.
3. Peterfy CG, Dijke CF van. Janzen DL, et al. Quantification of articular cartilage in the knee with pulsed saturation transfer subtraction and fat-suppressed MR imaging: optimization and validation. Radiology 1994; 192:485-491.
4. Peterfy CG, Majumdar S, Lang P, Dijke CF van. Sack K, Genant HK. MR imaging of the arthritic knee: improved discrimination of cartilage, synovium, and effusion with pulsed saturation transfer and fat-suppressed T1-weighted sequences. Radiology 1994; 191:413-419.
5. Peterfy CG, Linares R, Steinbach LS. Recent advances in magnetic resonance imaging of the musculoskeletal system. Radiol Clin North Am 1994; 32:291-311.
6. Recht M, Resnick D. MR imaging of articular cartilage: current status and future directions. AJR 1994; 163:283-290.
7. Disler DG, Peters TL, Muscoreil SJ, et al. Fat-suppressed spoiled GRASS imaging of knee hyaline cartilage: technique optimization and comparison with conventional MR imaging. AJR 1994; 163-887-892.
8. Wolff SD, Chesnick S, Frank JA, Lim KO, Balaban RS. Magnetization transfer contrast: MR imaging of the knee. Radiology 1991; 179:623-628.
9. Kaufman L, Kramer DM, Crooks LE, Ortendahl DA. Measuring signal-to-noise ratios in MR imaging. Radiology 1989; 173:265-267.
10. Hayes CW, Sawyer RW, Conway WF. Patellar cartilage lesions: in vitro detection and staging with MR imaging and pathologic correlation. Radiology 1990; 176:479-483.
11. Broderick LS, Turner DA, Renfrew DL, Schnitzer TJ, Huff JP, Harris O. Severity of articular cartilage abnormality in patients with osteoarthritis: evaluation with fast spin-echo MR vs arthroscopy. AJR 1994; 162:99-103.
12. Kramer J, Recht MR, Imhof H, Stiglbauer R, Engel A. Postcontrast MR arthrography in assessment of cartilage lesions. J Comp Assist Tomogr 1994; 18:218-224.
13. Heron CW, Calvert PT. Three-dimensional gradient-echo MR imaging of the knee: comparison with arthroscopy in 100 patients. Radiology 1992; 183:839-844.
14. Chandnani VP, Ho C, Chu P, Trudell D, Resnick D. Knee hyaline cartilage evaluated with MR imaging: a cadaveric study involving multiple imaging sequences and intraarticular injection of gadolinium and saline solution. Radiology 1991; 178:557-561.
15. Gagliardi JA, Chung EM, Chandnani VP, et al. Detection and staging of chondromalacia patellae: relative efficacies of conventional MR imaging, MR arthrography. and CT arthrography. AJR 1994; 163:629-636.
16. Foo TKF, Shellock FG, Hayes CE, Schenck JF, Slayman BE. High-resolution MR imaging of the wrist and eye with short TR, short TE, and partialecho acquisition. Radiology 1992; 183:277-281.
17. Hayes CW, Conway WF. Evaluation of articular cartilage: radiolographic and cross-sectional imaging techniques. Radiographics 1992: 12:409-428.
18. Konig H, Sauter R, Deimling M, Vogt M. Cartilage disorders: comparison of spin-echo, CHESS, and FLASH sequence MR images. Radiology 1987; 164:753-758.
19. Cole PR, Jasani MK, Wood B, Freemont AJ, Morris GA. High resolution, high field magnetic resonance imaging of joints: unexpected features in proton images of cartilage. Br J Radiol 1990; 63:907-909.
20. Modl JM, Sether LA, Haughton VM, Kneeland JB. Articular cartilage: correlation of histologic zones with signal intensity at MR imaging. Radiology 1991; 181:853-855.
21. Rubenstein JD, Kim JK, Morava-Protzner I, Stanchev PL, Henkelman RM. Effects of collagen orientation on MR imaging characteristics of bovine articular cartilage. Radiology 1993; 188:219-226.
22. Jonsson K, Buckwalter K, Helvie M, Niklason L, Martel W. Precision of hyaline cartilage thickness measurements. Acta Radiol 1992; 33:234-239.