Magnetic resonance imaging of knee cartilage using a water selective balanced steady-state free precession sequence

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 850-856

  Kornaat, Peter R ^a   Doornbos, Joost ^a   Van Der Molen, Aart J ^a   Kloppenburg, Margreet ^a   Nelissen, Rob G ^a   Hogendoorn, Pancras C W ^a   Bloem, Johan L ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cartilage; Knee imaging; MRI; Osteoarthritis; SSFP

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; WATER;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; KNEE CARTILAGE; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STEADY STATE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIBIA; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT;

AGED; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; KNEE JOINT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 7044222795     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20194     Document Type: Article

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