A comparison of dedicated 1.0 T extremity MRI vs large-bore 1.5 T MRI for semiquantitative whole organ assessment of osteoarthritis: the MOST study

Osteoarthritis and Cartilage

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 168-174

  Roemer, F W ^a,b   Lynch, J A ^c   Niu, J ^d   Zhang, Y ^d   Crema, M D ^a   Tolstykh, I ^c   El Khoury, G Y ^e   Felson, D T ^d   Lewis, C E ^f   Nevitt, M C ^c   Guermazi, A ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b KLINIKUM AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^f University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

1.0 T; Extremity MRI; Osteoarthritis; Semiquantitative scoring; WORMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW DISEASE; CARTILAGE DEGENERATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JOINT EFFUSION; KNEE MENISCUS RUPTURE; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; OSTEOPHYTE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNOVITIS; WHOLE BODY SCANNER;

AGED; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 74149094679     PISSN: 10634584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2009.08.017     Document Type: Article

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