Comparison of 2D Fat Suppressed Proton Density (FS-PD) and 3D (WATS-c) MRI pulse sequences in evaluation of chondromalacia patellae

Abstract Background Comparing the diagnostic performance of widely used 2D FSE technique (fat-suppressed proton density; FS-PD) and the 3D technique (water-selective cartilage scan; WATS-c) in evaluation of the chondromalacia patella by using arthroscopy as reference standard Results Seventy-five ad...

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Main Authors: Ahmed Ibrahim Tawfik, Wael Hamza Kamr, Saher Ebrahim Taman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-12-01
Series:The Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s43055-019-0102-z