Evaluation of the articular cartilage of the knee joint using an isotropic resolution 3D fast spin-echo sequence with conventional and radial reformatted images

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 205, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 371-379

  Gustas, Cristy N ^a   Blankenbaker, Donna G ^b   Del Rio, Alejandro Munoz ^b   Winalski, Carl S ^c   Kijowski, Richard ^b  

^a PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

3 T; Cartilage; Diagnostic performance; Morphology; MRI

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY; ARTICLE; CHONDROPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; KNEE ARTHROSCOPY; KNEE DISEASE; KNEE MENISCUS; KNEE SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MCNEMAR TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL FAST SPIN ECHO SEQUENCE; TWO DIMENSIONAL FAST SPIN ECHO SEQUENCE; ARTHROSCOPY; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTHROSCOPY; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84938709283     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.14.14265     Document Type: Article

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