Sodium Imaging of Patients after Matrix-Associated Chondrocyte Transplantation at 7 Tesla: Preliminary Results and Comparison with dGEMRIC at 3 Tesla
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S. Trattnig, D. Stelzeneder, V. Juras, P. Szomolanyi, G. H. Welsch, T. C. Mamisch, and S. Zbyn MR Centre High field MR, Department of Radiology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Department of Imaging Methods, Institute of Measurement Science, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia, Department of Trauma Surgery, University Hospital of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland
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