Morphological and biochemical T2 evaluation of cartilage repair tissue based on a hybrid double echo at steady state (DESS-T2d) approach

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 895-903

  Welsch, Goetz H ^a,b   Mamisch, Tallal C ^a,c   Zak, Lukas ^a   Mauerer, Andreas ^b   Apprich, Sebastian ^a   Stelzeneder, David ^a   Marlovits, Stefan ^a   Trattnig, Siegfried ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

cartilage repair; DESS; MOCART; T2 mapping; T2d mapping

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CARTILAGE; CARTILAGE CELL; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOUBLE ECHO STEADY STATE; HUMAN; KNEE; MATRIX ASSOCIATED AUTOLOGOUS CHONDROCYTE TRANSPLANTATION; MORPHOLOGICAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE OBSERVATION OF CARTILAGE REPAIR TISSUE SCORE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAXATION TIME; SCORING SYSTEM; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE REPAIR;

CARTILAGE; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; COHORT STUDIES; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 80053002750     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22677     Document Type: Article

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