Accessibility to combined assessment of morphology and physiology in articular cartilage using 23NA/1H coil at 1.5 Tesla MRI

• Main Authors: Hani, A. Mohd, Kumar, D., Malik, A., Razak, R.
• Format: Citation Index Journal
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Q Science (General); R Medicine (General); T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.utp.edu.my/10879/1/Accessibility%20to%20combined%20assessment%20of%20morphology%20and%20physiology%20in%20articular%20cartilage%20using%20%2023Na_1H%20coil%20at%201.5Tesla.pdf; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2013.02.405; http://eprints.utp.edu.my/10879/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas

Osteoarthritis (OA) can be characterised by the gradual loss of articular cartilage (AC). At the early stages of OA, physiological (loss of proteoglycan associated with loss of sodium) and morphological (thickness, surface curvature, volume) changes in AC have been measured. Magnetic Resonance Imagi...