Sodium MR imaging of the lumbar intervertebral disk at 7 T: Correlation with T2 mapping and modified Pfirrmann score at 3 T - Preliminary results

Radiology

Volumn 265, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 555-564

  Noebauer Huhmann, Iris Melanie ^a   Juras, Vladimir ^a,b   Pfirrmann, Christian W A ^c   Szomolanyi, Pavol ^a,b   Zbyn, Stefan ^a   Messner, Alina ^a   Wimmer, Johannes ^a   Weber, Michael ^a   Friedrich, Klaus M ^a   Stelzeneder, David ^a   Trattnig, Siegfried ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF MEASUREMENT SCIENCE   (Slovakia)

^c BALGRIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUMBAR DISK; MALE; MODIFIED PFIRRMANN SCORE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RADIOLOGIST; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SODIUM NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; T2 MAPPING; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867905773     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.12111920     Document Type: Article

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