Quantitative assessment of patellar cartilage volume and thickness at 3.0 tesla comparing a 3D-fast low angle shot versus a 3D-true fast imaging with steady-state precession sequence for reproducibility

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 189-197

  Weckbach, Sabine ^a,c   Mendlik, Thomas ^a   Horger, Wilhelm ^b   Wagner, Susi ^a   Reiser, Maximilian F ^a   Glaser, Christian ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

3.0 T; Cartilage; FLASH; MRI; Quantitation; Reproducibility; Thickness; TrueFISP; Volume

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARTILAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PATELLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STEADY STATE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HISTOLOGY; KNEE; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; KNEE JOINT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATELLA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33646364348     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rli.0000195837.32417.f9     Document Type: Article

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