Emerging magnetic resonance imaging technologies for musculoskeletal imaging under loading stress: Scope of the literature

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 155, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 616-624

  Dahabreh, Issa J ^a   Hadar, Nira ^a   Chung, Mei ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LOADING STRESS; LOADING TEST; MAGNETIC FIELD; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NEUROPATHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SITTING; SPINE; STANDING; STRESS; WEIGHT BEARING;

EID: 80055070308     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-155-9-201111010-00009     Document Type: Review

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