Three-dimensional delayed gadolinium-enhanced MRI of cartilage (dGEMRIC) for in vivo evaluation of reparative cartilage after matrix-associated autologous chondrocyte transplantation at 3.0T: Preliminary results

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 974-982

  Trattnig, Siegfried ^a,g   Marlovits, Stefan ^a   Gebetsroither, Simone ^a   Szomolanyi, Pavol ^a,b   Welsch, Goetz H ^a   Salomonowitz, Erich ^c   Watanabe, Atsuya ^d   Deimling, Michael ^e   Mamisch, Tallal Charles ^f  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF MEASUREMENT SCIENCE   (Slovakia)

^c LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^g MR Center   (Austria)

Author keywords

3T; Articular cartilage; Autologous chondrocyte implantation; dGEMRIC; MRI

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CARTILAGE CELL; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYALINE CARTILAGE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE REPAIR;

ADULT; CARTILAGE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CHONDROCYTES; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCANS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 35148828288     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21091     Document Type: Article

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