MR imaging of hyaline cartilage at 0.5 T: A quantitative and qualitative in vitro evaluation of three types of sequences

Skeletal Radiology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 297-305

  Van Der Linden, Edwin ^a   Kroon, Herman M ^a   Doornbos, Joost ^a   Hermans, Jo ^a   Bloem, Johan L ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cartilage, MR; Magnetic resonance (MR); MR, fat suppression; MR, low field strength imaging; MR, three dimensional

Indexed keywords

HYALIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARTILAGE; KNEE; NOISE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SWINE;

ANIMALS; CARTILAGE; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; FEMUR; HYALIN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KNEE INJURIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REFERENCE VALUES; SWINE;

EID: 0031822315     PISSN: 03642348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002560050386     Document Type: Article

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