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MICROSCOPY RESEARCH AND TECHNIQUE
Volume 76, Issue 6, Pages 625-632Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jemt.22209
Keywords
articular cartilage; anisotropy; mu MRI; PLM; FTIRI; dichroic ratio
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- NIH R01 [AR045172, AR052353]
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This study aimed to synchronize the zonal differentiation of the full-thickness articular cartilage by three micro-imaging techniques, namely microscopic magnetic resonance imaging (mu MRI), polarized light microscopy (PLM), and Fourier-transform infrared imaging (FTIRI). Eighteen cartilage-bone blocks from three canine humeral joints were imaged by: (a) mu MRI T2 relaxation at 0 degrees and 55 degrees orientations in a 7 T magnetic field, (b) PLM optical retardation and azimuthal angle, and (c) FTIRI amide I and amide II anisotropies at 0 degrees and 90 degrees polarizations relative to the articular surface. In addition, mu MRI T1 relaxation was imaged before and after the tissue being immersed in gadolinium (contrast agent) solution, to calculate the proteoglycan concentration. A set of previously established criteria in cartilage imaging was revised. The new criteria could simultaneously correlate the thicknesses of the three consecutive subtissue zones in articular cartilage among these imaging techniques. Microsc. Res. Tech. 76:625632, 2013. (c) 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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