Three-dimensional Doppler sonographic vascular imaging in regions with increased MR enhancement in inflamed wrists of patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Joint Bone Spine

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 518-522

  Strunk, Johannes ^a   Klingenberger, Pascal ^a   Strube, Katinka ^a   Bachmann, Georg ^b   Müller Ladner, Ulf ^a   Kluge, Alexander ^b  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b KERCKHOFF HEART CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging; Power Doppler ultrasonography; Rheumatoid arthritis; Three dimensional ultrasound

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; BLOOD VESSEL; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JOINT CAPSULE; JOINT SWELLING; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SYNOVIUM; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VASCULARIZATION; WRIST DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; WRIST;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; WRIST JOINT;

EID: 33750581259     PISSN: 1297319X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbspin.2006.01.010     Document Type: Article

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