High-resolution ultrashort echo time (UTE) imaging on human knee with AWSOS sequence at 3.0 T

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 204-210

  Qian, Yongxian ^a   Williams, Ashley A ^a   Chu, Constance R ^a,b   Boada, Fernando E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

3T MRI; high resolution imaging; knee imaging; short T 2 relaxation; UTE imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT INJURY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; KNEE MENISCUS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATELLA; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KNEE; KNEE JOINT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TENDONS;

EID: 83755206254     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22639     Document Type: Article

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