T2 Quantitation of Human Articular Cartilage in a Clinical Setting at 1.5 T: Implementation and Testing of Four Multiecho Pulse Sequence Designs for Validity

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 288-299

  Mendlik, Thomas ^a,d   Faber, Sonja Christine ^a   Weber, Jürgen ^a   Hohe, Jan ^b   Rauch, Elisabeth ^c   Reiser, Maximilian ^a   Glaser, Christian ^a  

^a Department of Clinical Radiology ^*  (Germany)

^b Institute of Anatomy

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cartilage; MRI; Multiecho; Stimulated echoes; T2

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; CALCULATION; CARTILAGE MATRIX; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PATELLA; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 1942468936     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rli.0000119196.50924.f3     Document Type: Article

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