Improving the clinical efficiency of T2* mapping of ligament integrity

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2522-2525

  Biercevicz, A M ^a   Walsh, E G ^b   Murray, M M ^c   Akelman, M R ^a   Fleming, B C ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

MRI; Posterior cruciate ligament

Indexed keywords

GOLD; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

CLINICAL APPLICATION; CLINICAL EFFICIENCY; NONLINEAR LEAST SQUARES; POSTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; RELAXOMETRY; SIGNAL INTENSITIES; STRONG CORRELATION; SURROGATE MEASURES;

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GOLD STANDARD; IMAGE PROCESSING; KNEE LIGAMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELAXATION TIME; SHEEP; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; VOXEL WISE 2 ECHO POINT T2 DETERMINATION; VOXEL WISE 6 ECHO LEAST SQUARES FIT;

MRI; POSTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; T(2)(*) RELAXOMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; JOINTS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LIGAMENTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SHEEP;

EID: 84902089971     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: 18732380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2014.03.037     Document Type: Article

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