Effect of short-term unloading on T2 relaxation time in the lumbar intervertebral disc - In vivo magnetic resonance imaging study at 3.0 tesla

Spine Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 257-264

  Stelzeneder, David ^a   Kovács, Balázs K ^a,b   Goed, Sabine ^a   Welsch, Goetz H ^a,c   Hirschfeld, Clemens ^a   Paternostro Sluga, Tatjana ^a   Friedrich, Klaus M ^a   Mamisch, Tallal C ^a,d   Trattnig, Siegfried ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Intervertebral disc; Loading; Magnetic resonance imaging; Quantitative MRI; T2 mapping

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANNULUS FIBROSUS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; LORDOSIS; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR DISK; LUMBAR SPINE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEUS PULPOSUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAXATION TIME; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUPINE POSITION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WATER TRANSPORT;

ADULT; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC; LORDOSIS; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SUPINE POSITION;

EID: 84859325816     PISSN: 15299430     EISSN: 18781632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spinee.2012.02.001     Document Type: Article

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