Imaging articular cartilage defects with 3D fat-suppressed echo planar imaging: Comparison with conventional 3D fat-suppressed gradient echo sequence and correlation with histology

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 8-14

  Trattnig, Siegfried ^a   Huber, Monika ^b   Breitenseher, Martin J ^a   Trnka, Hans Joerg ^c   Rand, Thomas ^a   Kaider, Alexandra ^a   Helbich, Thomas ^a   Imhof, Herwig ^a   Resnick, Donald ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Pathologie Bakteriol Institut   (Austria)

^c Orthopedic Clinic Gersthof   (Austria)

^d VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Cartilage; Knees, abnormalities; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPLASTY; CARTILAGE; GRADING; HISTOLOGY; KNEE PROSTHESES;

ARTICULAR CARTILAGE DEFECTS; ARTICULAR CARTILAGES; CARTILAGE SURFACES; CONTRAST-TO-NOISE RATIO; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FAT SUPPRESSION; GRADIENT ECHO SEQUENCES; IMAGING SEQUENCE; KNEE, ABNORMALITY; SIGNAL INTENSITIES;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0031934432     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004728-199801000-00002     Document Type: Article

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