Bilaminar pattern of tibial condyle cartilage layer on the fat-suppressed 3D gradient echo images: Artifact or structural and biochemical difference in composition of cartilage?

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 187-192

  Trattnig, S ^a   Mlynarik V ^a   Jung, B ^a   Bader, T ^a   Sulzbacher, I ^b   Herneth, A ^a   Gaisch, R ^a   Puig, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Inst für Klinische Pathologie   (Austria)

Author keywords

Hyaline cartilage; Laminar appearance; Proteoglycans

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CARTILAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KNEE DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOSARCOMA; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIBIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTIFACTS; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; FEMORAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; KNEE INJURIES; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MENISCI, TIBIAL; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; OSTEOSARCOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIBIA;

LAMIINAE;

EID: 0034999398     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(01)00228-4     Document Type: Article

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