Classification of intervertebral disk degeneration with axial T2 mapping

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 189, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 936-942

  Watanabe, Atsuya ^a,b   Benneker, Lorin M ^a   Boesch, Chris ^a   Watanabe, Tomoko ^a   Obata, Takayuki ^c   Anderson, Suzanne E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY CHIBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Classification; Degeneration; Intervertebral disks; MRI; T2 mapping

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEUS PULPOSUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34748917671     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.2142     Document Type: Article

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