Quantitative T2 mapping of knee cartilage: Differentiation of healthy control cartilage and cartilage repair tissue in the knee with unloading - Initial results

Radiology

Volumn 254, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 818-826

  Mamisch, Tallal C ^a,b   Trattnig, Siegfried ^b   Quirbach, Sebastian ^b   Marlovits, Stefan ^b   White, Lawrence M ^c   Welsch, Goetz H ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; CARTILAGE TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATRIX ASSOCIATED AUTOLOGOUS CHONDROCYTE TRANSPLANTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TISSUE REPAIR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTHROSCOPY; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; CHONDROCYTES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYALURONIC ACID; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KNEE JOINT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 77950186524     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.09090335     Document Type: Article

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