Spectrum of T2*values in knee joint cartilage at 3 T: A cross-sectional analysis in asymptomatic young adult volunteers

Skeletal Radiology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 443-452

  Bittersohl, Bernd ^a   Hosalkar, Harish S ^b   Sondern, Malte ^a   Miese, Falk R ^a   Antoch, Gerald ^a   Krauspe, Rüdiger ^a   Zilkens, Christoph ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Center of Hip Preservation and Children's Orthopaedics   (United States)

Author keywords

Cartilage; Knee; Magnetic resonance imaging; mapping; Normative data; T2

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CARTILAGE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FEMUR CONDYLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; KNEE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PATELLOFEMORAL JOINT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SAMPLE SIZE; STEADY STATE; YOUNG ADULT; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; GERMANY; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD;

ADULT; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KNEE JOINT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896709937     PISSN: 03642348     EISSN: 14322161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00256-013-1806-1     Document Type: Article

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