A non-invasive technique for 3-dimensional assessment of articular cartilage thickness based on MRI part 1: Development of a computational method

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 795-804

  Lösch, Andreas ^a   Eckstein, Felix ^b   Haubner, Michael ^a   Englmeier, Karl Hans ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Articular cartilage; Cartilage thickness; Distance measurement; Magnetic resonance imaging; Three dimensional reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTHROGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THICKNESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KNEE JOINT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0030921706     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(97)00012-X     Document Type: Article

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