Comparison of 3 T and 7 T MRI clinical sequences for ankle imaging

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 81, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1846-1850

  Juras, Vladimir ^a,b   Welsch, Goetz ^a   Bär, Peter ^c   Kronnerwetter, Claudia ^a   Fujita, Hiroyuki ^d   Trattnig, Siegfried ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF MEASUREMENT SCIENCE   (Slovakia)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^d OSIsoft LCC   (United States)

Author keywords

7 Tesla; Ankle; MRI; Sequence optimization; Ultra high field MR

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES TENDON; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BONE; CARTILAGE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING; MUSCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SYNOVIAL FLUID; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; ANKLE; ANKLE JOINT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84864427919     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: 18727727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2011.05.023     Document Type: Article

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