Part 2: Quantitative proton T2 and sodium magnetic resonance imaging to assess intervertebral disc degeneration in a rabbit model

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Volumn 37, Issue 18, 2012, Pages

  Moon, Chan Hong ^a   Jacobs, Lloydine ^a   Kim, Jung Hwan ^a   Sowa, Gwendolyn ^a   Vo, Nam ^a   Kang, James ^a   Bae, Kyongtae Ty ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

dual tuned proton sodium MR imaging; intervertebral disc degeneration; rabbit model; sodium concentration; T2 relaxation time

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LUMBAR DISK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELAXATION TIME; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; SODIUM NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROTEOGLYCANS; PROTONS; PUNCTURES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SODIUM;

EID: 84865655960     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3182583447     Document Type: Article

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