Determination of knee joint cartilage thickness using three-dimensional magnetic resonance chondro-crassometry (3D MR-CCM)

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 256-265

  Eckstein, Felix ^a,b   Gavazzeni, Antonia ^a,b   Sittek, Harald ^a   Haubner, Michael ^c   Lösch, Andreas ^c   Milz, Stefan ^b   Englmeier, Karl Hans ^c   Schulte, Erik ^d   Putz, Reinhard ^b   Reiser, Maximilian ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

cartilage; cartilage thickness; knee, MR; magnetic resonance (MR) technology

Indexed keywords

CARTILAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

3D RECONSTRUCTION; ACCURACY AND PRECISION; ARTICULAR CARTILAGES; CARTILAGE THICKNESS; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; GRADIENT ECHO SEQUENCES; KNEE , MR; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D);

JOINTS (ANATOMY);

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; CARTILAGE DEGENERATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KNEE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SURGICAL ANATOMY; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 9444240309     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910360213     Document Type: Article

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