title: [MR imaging for the assessment of osteoarthritic knees].
abstract: Currently two types of MR imaging are used for the evaluation of osteoarthritic knees. One is to assess the status of knee joint as a whole such as Whole-Organ Magnetic Resonance Imaging Score (WORMS) ; the other is to assess the status of cartilage using specific sequences such as delayed gadolinium enhanced magnetic resonance imaging for cartilage (dGEMRIC) , T2 mapping, and T1 rho.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Chiba Univershity, Japan.
authors.forename: Takahisa
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authors.lastname: Sasho
mesh_terms: D002358:Cartilage, Articular / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D007717:Knee / Q000473:pathology*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D020370:Osteoarthritis, Knee / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D012720:Severity of Illness Index