Clinical usefulness of adding 3D cartilage imaging sequences to a routine knee MR protocol

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 196, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 159-167

  Kijowski, Richard ^a   Blankenbaker, Donna G ^a   Woods, Michael ^a   Del Rio, Alejandro Munoz ^b   De Smet, Arthur A ^a   Reeder, Scott B ^a,c,d  

^a University of Wisconsin Health   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

3 T MRI; Knee cartilage; Knee MRI; Sports medicine

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHONDROPATHY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNEE ARTHROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTHROSCOPY; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; KNEE INJURIES; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 78650835058     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.4095     Document Type: Article

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