T2* mapping for articular cartilage assessment: Principles, current applications, and future prospects

Skeletal Radiology

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1429-1445

  Hesper, Tobias ^a   Hosalkar, Harish S ^b   Bittersohl, Daniela ^a   Welsch, Götz H ^c   Krauspe, Rüdiger ^a   Zilkens, Christoph ^a   Bittersohl, Bernd ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cartilage; Magnetic resonance imaging; Review; T2* mapping

Indexed keywords

CHONDROITIN; CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOLINIUM; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN; KERATIN; PROTEOGLYCAN; SODIUM;

ANKLE; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; CARTILAGE CELL; CARTILAGE DEGENERATION; CARTILAGE MATRIX; CHONDROPATHY; COLLAGEN FIBER; EARLY INTERVENTION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMOROACETABULAR IMPINGEMENT; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAGNETIC FIELD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORTHOPEDIC IMPLANT; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOGLYCAN SYNTHESIS; RADIOFREQUENCY; RELAXATION TIME; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SLIPPED CAPITAL FEMORAL EPIPHYSIS; TENSILE STRENGTH; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WATER CONTENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TRENDS;

CARTILAGE DISEASES; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOARTHRITIS;

EID: 84906937741     PISSN: 03642348     EISSN: 14322161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00256-014-1852-3     Document Type: Review

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