High-resolution magnetic resonance imaging of the temporomandibular joint: Image quality at 1.5 and 3.0 Tesla in volunteers

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 428-434

  Stehling, Christoph ^a   Vieth, Volker ^a   Bachmann, Rainald ^a   Nassenstein, Isabelle ^a   Kugel, Harald ^a   Kooijman, Hendrik ^b   Heindel, Walter ^a   Fischbach, Roman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

3.0 Tesla; Disk; MRI; TMJ

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; JAW; MALE; MOUTH; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DISORDER;

EID: 34249044144     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rli.0000262081.23997.6b     Document Type: Article

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