Short-term exercise-induced changes in hydration state of healthy achilles tendons can be visualized by effects of off-resonant radiofrequency saturation in a three-dimensional ultrashort echo time MRI sequence applied at 3 Tesla

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1400-1407

  Syha, Roland ^a   Springer, Fabian ^a   Grözinger, Gerd ^a   Würslin, Christian ^a   Ipach, Ingmar ^b   Ketelsen, Dominik ^a   Schabel, Christoph ^a   Gebhard, Harry ^c   Hein, Tobias ^a   Martirosian, Petros ^a   Schick, Fritz ^a   Claussen, Claus D ^a   Grosse, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c Berufsgenossenschaftlichen Unfallklinik Tubingen   (Germany)

Author keywords

Achilles tendon; Exercise; Magnetization transfer; MRI; Running; Tendons; UTE imaging

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES TENDON; ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BONE MASS; BONE STRESS; EXERCISE; HUMAN; HYDRATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOFREQUENCY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BODY WATER; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ACHILLES TENDON; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BODY WATER; EXERCISE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84910018558     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.24488     Document Type: Article

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