Cartilaginous endplates of the spine: MRI with anatomic correlation in cadavers

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 933-940

  Kakitsubata, Yousuke ^a,b,c   Theodorou, Daphne J ^a,b,e   Theodorou, Stavroula J ^a,b   Tamura, Shozo ^d   Nabeshima, Kazuki ^d   Trudell, Debra ^b   Clopton, Paul L ^b   Resnick, Donald ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c Miyazaki Social Insurance Hospital   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cartilaginous endplate; Magnetic resonance imaging, correlative study; Spine

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SPIN POLARIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

CARTILAGINOI ENDPLATE; CORRELATIVE STUDY; ENDPLATES; HIGH RESOLUTION; LUMBAR SPINES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CORRELATIVE STUDY; MORPHO-LOGICS; MR-IMAGES; SPINE; T1-WEIGHTED;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

AGED; ARTICLE; BONE EROSION; CADAVER; CARTILAGE DEGENERATION; CARTILAGINOUS ENDPLATE; CARTILAGINOUS TISSUE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE MALFORMATION; VERTEBRA BODY;

EID: 0036870617     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004728-200211000-00013     Document Type: Article

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