A preliminary study of the T1rho values of normal knee cartilage using 3 T-MRI

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 81, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Goto, Hajimu ^a   Iwama, Yuki ^a   Fujii, Masahiko ^a   Aoyama, Nobukazu ^a   Kubo, Seiji ^a   Kuroda, Ryosuke ^a   Ohno, Yoshiharu ^a   Sugimura, Kazuro ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Cartilage; Degeneration; MRI; T1rho; Weight bearing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; CARTILAGE DEGENERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMUR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNEE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIBIA; WEIGHT BEARING;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 84861640061     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: 18727727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2012.03.022     Document Type: Article

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