Comparison of PD BLADE with fat saturation (FS), PD FS and T2 3D DESS with water excitation (WE) in detecting articular knee cartilage defects

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1255-1262

  Lavdas, Eleftherios ^a   Topalzikis, Theofilos ^b   Mavroidis, Panayiotis ^c,d   Kyriakis, Ioannis ^b   Roka, Violeta ^e   Kostopoulos, Spiros ^a   Glotsos, Dimitrios ^a   Zilidis, Christos ^f   Stathakis, Sotiris ^c   Tsagkalis, Antonios ^b   Papanikolaou, Nikos ^c   Batsikas, Georgios ^b   Arvanitis, Dimitrios L ^g   Vassiou, Katerina ^f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

^b IASO   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e Health Center of Farkadona   (Greece)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

^g UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

1.5T MRI; BLADE proton density with fat saturation sequences; Cartilage defects; Knee MRI; T2 3D DESS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHONDROPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; KNEE DISEASE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON DENSITY BLADE FAT SATURATION CORONAL; PROTON DENSITY FAT SATURATION CORONAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; T2 THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING DOUBLE ECHO STEADY STATE;

1.5T MRI; BLADE PROTON DENSITY WITH FAT SATURATION SEQUENCES; CARTILAGE DEFECTS; KNEE MRI; T2 3D DESS;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; BODY WATER; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84883742218     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2013.06.007     Document Type: Article

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