What is new in ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging for musculoskeletal disorders?

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1141-1148

  Cimmino, Marco A ^a   Grassi, Walter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

3D US; fusion imaging; protein binding MRI contrast agents; sonoelastography; US contrast agents; very high frequency transducers; weight bearing MRI; whole body MRI

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNOVIUM; TRANSDUCER; WEIGHT BEARING; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

BIOMECHANICS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RHEUMATIC DISEASES; RHEUMATOLOGY; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 56749182564     PISSN: 15216942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.berh.2008.09.012     Document Type: Review

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