Effect of multislice acquisition on T1 and T2 measurements of articular cartilage at 3T

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 109-117

  Watanabe, Atsuya ^a,c   Boesch, Chris ^a   Obata, Takayuki ^b   Anderson, Suzanne E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Articular cartilage; Longitudinal relaxation time (T1); Magnetic resonance imaging; Magnetization transfer; Transverse relaxation time (T2)

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATELLA; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RELAXATION TIME; TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 34547762645     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20962     Document Type: Article

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