Evaluation of native hyaline cartilage and repair tissue after two cartilage repair surgery techniques with 23Na MR imaging at 7 T: Initial experience

Osteoarthritis and Cartilage

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 837-845

  Zbyn S ^a   Stelzeneder, D ^a   Welsch, G H ^a,b   Negrin, L L ^a   Juras, V ^a,c   Mayerhoefer, M E ^a   Szomolanyi, P ^a,c   Bogner, W ^a   Domayer, S E ^a   Weber, M ^a   Trattnig, S ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF MEASUREMENT SCIENCE   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

7 T; Cartilage repair tissue; Knee cartilage; Repair surgery efficacy; Sodium MRI; Spoiled gradient echo

Indexed keywords

SODIUM 23;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW STIMULATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYALINE CARTILAGE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MATRIX ASSOCIATED AUTOLOGOUS CHONDROCYTE TRANSPLANTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ADULT; AGED; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; CHONDROCYTES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FEMUR; HUMANS; HYALINE CARTILAGE; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; KNEE JOINT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863000430     PISSN: 10634584     EISSN: 15229653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2012.04.020     Document Type: Article

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