Bias of cartilage T2 values related to method of calculation

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1236-1243

  Koff, Matthew F ^a   Amrami, Kimberly K ^a   Felmlee, Joel P ^a   Kaufman, Kenton R ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cartilage; MRI; Osteoarthritis; Patella; T2

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CALCULATION; CARTILAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATELLA TENDON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; ALGORITHM; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; PATELLA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MALE; PATELLA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 55049101259     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2008.03.002     Document Type: Article

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