title: Magnetic resonance imaging in rheumatoid arthritis: summary of OMERACT activities, current status, and plans.
abstract: Complementing the 3 papers that precede it, this paper explains the rationale for the activities of an OMERACT working party on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) evaluation of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), sets out provisional recommendations for the acquisition and scoring of MRI of the hand and wrist in RA, and delineates some of the many residual problems that need to be addressed.
authors.affiliation: Rheumatology Research Unit, University of Leeds, UK.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Conaghan
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Edmonds
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Emery
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Genant
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Gibbon
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Klarlund
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lassere
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: McGonagle
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: McQueen
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: O'Connor
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Peterfy
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Shnier
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Stewart
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ostergaard
mesh_terms: D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000592:standards*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011859:Radiography