MR imaging of the wrist: Comparison between 1.5-and 3-T MR imaging - Preliminary experience

Radiology

Volumn 234, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 256-264

  Saupe, Nadja ^a   Prüssmann, Klaas P ^b   Luechinger, Roger ^b   Bösiger, Peter ^b   Marincek, Borut ^a   Weishaupt, Dominik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Institute for Biomedical Engineering   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; CARPAL BONE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIGAMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WRIST;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WRIST INJURIES; WRIST JOINT;

EID: 10644224415     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2341031596     Document Type: Review

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