Minimally Invasive Ultrasound Method for Intra-Articular Diagnostics of Cartilage Degeneration

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1546-1554

  Viren T ^a   Saarakkala, S ^a   Kaleva, E ^a   Nieminen, H J ^a   Jurvelin, J S ^a   Toyras J ^a  

^a KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Articular cartilage; High frequency ultrasound; Intra articular; Minimally invasive imaging; Osteoarthritis

Indexed keywords

ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; HIGH-FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND; INTRA-ARTICULAR; MINIMALLY INVASIVE IMAGING; OSTEOARTHRITIS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; CARTILAGE; DEGRADATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; JOINTS (ANATOMY); LIGAMENTS; METAL ANALYSIS; REFLECTION; RELAY CONTROL SYSTEMS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; ULTRASONIC DEVICES; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

COLLAGEN;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARTILAGE DEGENERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; EX VIVO STUDY; KNEE ARTHROSCOPY; KNEE DISEASE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RADIOFREQUENCY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ANIMALS; ARTHRITIS, EXPERIMENTAL; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; CATTLE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 68949149762     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2009.04.004     Document Type: Article

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