Investigation of laminar appearance of articular cartilage by means of magnetic resonance microscopy

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 435-442

  Mlynárik, Vladimír ^a,b   Degrassi, Anna ^a   Toffanin, Renato ^a,d   Vittur, Franco ^c   Cova, Maria ^c   Pozzi Mucelli, Roberto S ^c  

^a POLY bios   (Italy)

^b Derer 's University Hospital Slovakia   (Slovakia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^d Area di Ricerca   (Italy)

Author keywords

Articular cartilage; Magnetic resonance microscopy, MRI; Magnetization transfer; Relaxation

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN FIBER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0029992250     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0730-725X(96)00025-2     Document Type: Article

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