Effect of knee joint positioning on the reproducibility of T2 relaxation time of articular cartilage in vivo
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T. Svärd, T. G. Williams, E. Lammentausta, Y. Xia, and M. T. Nieminen Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland, School of Cancer, Enabling Science and Technology, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom, Department of Physics and Center for Biomedical Research, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, United States, Department of Medical Technology, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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Long-term and short-term reproducibility of T2 relaxation time in human knee cartilage
INTRODUCTION T2 relaxation time of articular cartilage has been reported to reflect the orientation and concentration of collagen fibrils [1-2]. The reproducibility of T2 in human patellar cartilage has been reported to be close to 5% [3]. However, the patellar cartilage is the thickest one in the knee, and the reproducibility in other articular surfaces has not been studied earlier. In this st...
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