Sodium MR Imaging of Articular Cartilage Pathologies

Current Radiology Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Zbýň, Štefan ^a   Mlynárik, Vladimír ^a   Juras, Vladimir ^a   Szomolanyi, Pavol ^a   Trattnig, Siegfried ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cartilage; Osteoarthritis; Repair tissue; Sodium MR imaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 85017516721     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21674825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40134-014-0041-4     Document Type: Review

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