MRI advancements in musculoskeletal clinical and research practice

DB Sneag, F Abel, HG Potter, J Fritz, MF Koff… - Radiology, 2023 - pubs.rsna.org
Over the past decades, MRI has become increasingly important for diagnosing and
longitudinally monitoring musculoskeletal disorders, with ongoing hardware and software …

The QIBA profile for MRI-based compositional imaging of knee cartilage

M Chalian, X Li, A Guermazi, NA Obuchowski… - Radiology, 2021 - pubs.rsna.org
MRI-based cartilage compositional analysis shows biochemical and microstructural
changes at early stages of osteoarthritis before changes become visible with structural MRI …

Use of 2D U-Net convolutional neural networks for automated cartilage and meniscus segmentation of knee MR imaging data to determine relaxometry and …

B Norman, V Pedoia, S Majumdar - Radiology, 2018 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To analyze how automatic segmentation translates in accuracy and precision to
morphology and relaxometry compared with manual segmentation and increases the speed …

Updates on compositional MRI map** of the cartilage: emerging techniques and applications

MVW Zibetti, RG Menon, HL de Moura… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Osteoarthritis (OA) is a widely occurring degenerative joint disease that is severely
debilitating and causes significant socioeconomic burdens to society. Magnetic resonance …

Allogeneic MSCs and recycled autologous chondrons mixed in a one-stage cartilage cell transplantion: a first-in-man trial in 35 patients

TS de Windt, LA Vonk, ICM Slaper-Cortenbach… - Stem …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
MSCs are known as multipotent mesenchymal stem cells that have been found capable of
differentiating into various lineages including cartilage. However, recent studies suggest …

[HTML][HTML] Systematic review and meta-analysis of the reliability and discriminative validity of cartilage compositional MRI in knee osteoarthritis

JW MacKay, SBL Low, TO Smith, AP Toms… - Osteoarthritis and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Objective To assess reliability and discriminative validity of cartilage compositional magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) in knee osteoarthritis (OA). Design The study was carried out per …

Magnetic resonance imaging assessments for knee segmentation and their use in combination with machine/deep learning as predictors of early osteoarthritis …

J Martel-Pelletier, P Paiement… - Therapeutic Advances …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a prevalent and disabling disease that can develop over
decades. This disease is heterogeneous and involves structural changes in the whole joint …

[HTML][HTML] T1ρ magnetic resonance: basic physics principles and applications in knee and intervertebral disc imaging

YXJ Wáng, Q Zhang, X Li, W Chen… - Quantitative imaging in …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
T 1ρ relaxation time provides a new contrast mechanism that differs from T 1-and T 2-
weighted contrast, and is useful to study low-frequency motional processes and chemical …

Prestructural cartilage assessment using MRI

TM Link, J Neumann, X Li - Journal of Magnetic Resonance …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Cartilage loss is irreversible, and to date, no effective pharmacotherapies are available to
protect or regenerate cartilage. Quantitative prestructural/compositional MR imaging …

[BOOK][B] Articular cartilage

KA Athanasiou, EM Darling, JC Hu, GD DuRaine… - 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
This book covers the latest research and advancements related to articular cartilage in
biology, development, pathology, clinical applications and tissue engineering. The authors …