Quantitative, small bore, 1 Tesla, magnetic resonance imaging of the hands of patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 860-865

  Xie, Xiaoming ^a   Webber, Colin E ^b   Adachi, Jonathan D ^c   O'Neill, John ^c   Inglis, Dean ^d   Bobba, Raja S ^c   Wu, Hao ^d  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b Hamilton Health Sciences ^*  (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d Centre for Appendicular Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hand imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE EROSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDEMA; FEMALE; HAND; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SYNOVITIS; VALIDITY; WRIST;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; MIDDLE AGED; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WRIST JOINT;

EID: 57249111633     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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