Feasibility of texture analysis for the assessment of biochemical changes in meniscal tissue on t1 maps calculated from delayed gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging of cartilage data: Comparison with conventional relaxation time measurements

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 543-547

  Mayerhoefer, Marius E ^a   Welsch, Goetz H ^a,b   Riegler, Georg ^a   Mamisch, Tallal C ^c   Materka, Andrzej ^d   Weber, Michael ^a   El Rabadi, Karem ^a   Friedrich, Klaus M ^a   Dirisamer, Albert ^a   Trattnig, Siegfried ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d LODZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

dGEMRIC; meniscus; MRI at 3T; texture analysis

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BODY WEIGHT; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DOSIMETRY; ENTROPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; KNEE MENISCUS; KNEE MENISCUS RUPTURE; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAXATION TIME; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; STEADY STATE; STUDENT T TEST; TEXTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 77955473115     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e3181ea363b     Document Type: Article

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