Journal
JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING
Volume 36, Issue 4, Pages 775-787Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.23629
Keywords
magnetic resonance imaging; high-field imaging; phased array coils; metallic implants; isotropic imaging; cartilage mapping
Funding
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) [NIH EB 002524, NIH EB 005790, NIH EB 008190]
- Coulter Foundation
- SCBT/MR, Stanford University Undergraduate Advising and Research
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The technology of musculoskeletal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is advancing at a dramatic rate. MRI is now done at medium and higher field strengths with more specialized surface coils and with more variable pulse sequences and postprocessing techniques than ever before. These innumerable technical advances are advantageous as they lead to an increased signal-to-noise ratio and increased variety of soft-tissue contrast options. However, at the same time they potentially produce more imaging artifacts when compared with past techniques. Substantial technical advances have considerable clinical challenges in musculoskeletal radiology such as postoperative patient imaging, cartilage mapping, and molecular imaging. In this review we consider technical advances in hardware and software of musculoskeletal MRI along with their clinical applications. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2012;36:775787. (c) 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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