Magnetic resonance imaging of the knee at 3 and 7 Tesla: A comparison using dedicated multi-channel coils and optimised 2D and 3D protocols

European Radiology

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1852-1859

  Welsch, Goetz H ^a,b   Juras, Vladimir ^a   Szomolanyi, Pavol ^a   Mamisch, Tallal C ^a,c   Baer, Peter ^d   Kronnerwetter, Claudia ^a   Blanke, Matthias ^b   Fujita, Hiroyuki ^e   Trattnig, Siegfried ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^e Quality Electrodynamics (QED)   (United States)

Author keywords

3 Tesla; 7 Tesla; Cartilage; Isotropic; MRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE; CARTILAGE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING SYSTEM; KNEE MENISCUS; KNEE RADIOGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; KNEE JOINT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84864694054     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-012-2450-1     Document Type: Article

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