Meniscal calcifications: Morphologic and quantitative evaluation by using 2D inversion-recovery ultrashort echo time and 3D ultrashort echo time 3.0-T MR imaging techniques - Feasibility study

Radiology

Volumn 264, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 260-268

  Omoumi, Patrick ^a,b   Bae, Won C ^a   Du, Jiang ^a   Diaz, Eric ^a   Statum, Sheronda ^a   Bydder, Graeme M ^a   Chung, Christine B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CADAVER; CALCIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; KNEE RADIOGRAPHY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MENISCAL CALCIFICATION; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON DENSITY WEIGHTED FAST SPIN ECHO SEQUENCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; T1 WEIGHTED FAST SPIN ECHO SEQUENCE; T2 WEIGHTED FAST SPIN ECHO SEQUENCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL FAST SPOILED GRADIENT ECHO SEQUENCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL ULTRASHORT ECHO TIME MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TWO DIMENSIONAL FAST SPOILED GRADIENT ECHO SEQUENCE; TWO DIMENSIONAL INVERSION RECOVERY ULTRASHORT ECHO TIME MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

AGED; CADAVER; CALCINOSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENISCI, TIBIAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84862702948     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.12111439     Document Type: Article

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