Rapid estimation of cartilage T2 with reduced T1 sensitivity using double echo steady state imaging

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1137-1143

  Heule, Rahel ^a   Ganter, Carl ^b   Bieri, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

cartilage; double echo steady state; fast imaging; relaxometry; SSFP

Indexed keywords

JOINTS (ANATOMY);

FAST IMAGING; GOLDEN SECTION SEARCH; MORPHOLOGICAL IMAGING; POSTPROCESSING APPROACH; RELAXOMETRY; SSFP; STEADY STATE; ZONAL VARIATIONS;

CARTILAGE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CARTILAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE ECHO STEADY STATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; IN VIVO STUDY; KNEE COIL; LONGITUDINAL RELAXATION TIME; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MORPHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATELLA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REDUCTION; RELAXATION TIME; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; SINGLE ECHO SPIN ECHO TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; KNEE; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; KNEE JOINT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84894457363     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24748     Document Type: Article

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