Clinical value of routine use of thin-section 3D MRI using 3D FSE sequences with a variable flip angle technique for internal derangements of the knee joint at 3T

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1309-1317

  Kudo, Hideyasu ^a   Inaoka, Tsutomu ^a   Kitamura, Noriko ^a   Nakatsuka, Tomoya ^a   Kasuya, Shusuke ^a   Kasai, Rumiko ^a   Tozawa, Mitsuyuki ^a   Nakagawa, Koichi ^a   Terada, Hitoshi ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY SAKURA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

3 T; Fast spin echo; Knee; MRI; Three dimensional

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHONDROPATHY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; FLIP ANGLE TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; KNEE DISEASE; KNEE LIGAMENT INJURY; KNEE MENISCUS RUPTURE; KNEE SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TWO DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

3 T; FAST SPIN ECHO; KNEE; MRI; THREE-DIMENSIONAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; KNEE INJURIES; KNEE JOINT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883739563     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2013.02.003     Document Type: Article

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