Anatomy and variants of the triangular fibrocartilage complex and its MR appearance at 3 and 7T

Seminars in Musculoskeletal Radiology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 93-103

  Nöbauer Huhmann, Iris M ^a   Pretterklieber, Michael ^a   Erhart, Jochen ^a   Bär, Peter ^b   Szomolanyi, Pavol ^a,c   Kronnerwetter, Claudia ^a   Lang, Susanna ^a   Friedrich, Klaus M ^a   Trattnig, Siegfried ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF MEASUREMENT SCIENCE   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

7 Tesla; anatomy; MRI; TFCC; triangular fibrocartilage complex

Indexed keywords

BODY POSTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LIGAMENT; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REVIEW; TENDON; TRIANGULAR FIBROCARTILAGE; WRIST;

HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGAMENTS, ARTICULAR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRONATION; SUPINATION; TENDONS; TRIANGULAR FIBROCARTILAGE; WRIST JOINT;

EID: 84861590071     PISSN: 10897860     EISSN: 1098898X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1311761     Document Type: Article

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