Measurement of articular cartilage surface irregularity in rat knee contracture

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2218-2225

  Trudel, Guy ^a   Himori, Ko ^b   Goudreau, Louis ^c   Uhthoff, Hans K ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b Bone and Joint Research Laboratory   (Canada)

^c Rehabilitation Center   (Canada)

^d Division of Orthopaedics   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cartilage surface; Contracture; Degeneration; Histomorphometry; Immobilization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; CARTILAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMUR; HISTOLOGY; IMMOBILIZATION; JOINT CONTRACTURE; KNEE SURGERY; MEASUREMENT; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TIBIA;

ANIMALS; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; CONTRACTURE; HINDLIMB SUSPENSION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; ROC CURVE; STIFLE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 0141531071     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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