Optimization of sodium MRI for the human knee at 4.7 tesla
Osteoarthritis is characterized by pain and inflammation in joints, typically weight-bearing joints such as the knee. An early warning sign of osteoarthritis is the loss of proteoglycan molecules in the cartilage matrix. A surrogate method for measuring proteoglycan loss is detection of sodium ion...
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| Language: | en |
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2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10048/1431 |