Morphology of the cartilaginous endplates in human intervertebral disks with ultrashort echo time MR imaging

Radiology

Volumn 266, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 564-574

  Bae, Won C ^a   Statum, Sheronda ^a   Zhang, Zhao ^b   Yamaguchi, Tomonori ^c   Wolfson, Tanya ^c   Gamst, Anthony C ^c   Du, Jiang ^a   Bydder, Graeme M ^a   Masuda, Koichi ^c   Chung, Christine B ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CARTILAGINOUS TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPIN ECHO MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SUBCHONDRAL BONE PLATE; TISSUE SECTION; ULTRASHORT ECHO TIME MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

CADAVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84873382693     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.12121181     Document Type: Article

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