MR imaging of cartilage in cadaveric wrists: Comparison between imaging at 1.5 and 3.0 T and gross pathologic inspection

Radiology

Volumn 243, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 180-187

  Saupe, Nadja ^a   Pfirrmann, Christian W A ^b   Schmid, Marius R ^b   Schertler, Thomas ^a   Manestar, Mirjana ^c   Weishaupt, Dominik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ORTHOPEDIC UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BALGRIST   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CADAVER; CARTILAGE; CHONDROPATHY; CONSENSUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WRIST;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CADAVER; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WRIST JOINT;

EID: 34147222722     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2431060294     Document Type: Article

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