| MR Imaging of Articular Cartilage Room A102 |
| 16:00 218. Watershed Segmentation of High Resolution Articular Cartilage Images for Assessment of OsteoArthritis, S. Ghosh, O. Beuf, D.C. Newitt, M. Ries, N. Lane and S. Majumdar, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA and BioEngineering Graduate Group, UCSF-UC Berkeley, CA, USA. |
| 16:12 219. No Apparent Progressive Change to Knee Cartilage Volumes Over One Year in Rheumatoid and Osteoarthritis, S.J. Gandy, A.D. Brett, P.A. Dieppe, M.C. Keen, R.A. Maciewicz, C.J. Taylor, J.C. Waterton and I. Watt, United Bristol Healthcare Trust, Bristol, UK; University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; University of Bristol, Bristol, UK and AstraZeneca, Macclesfield, UK. |
| 16:24 220. Segmentation of Osteoarthritic Femoral Cartilage Using Live Wire, D. Steines, C. Cheng, A. Wong, J. Tsai, S. Napel and P. Lang, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. |
| 16:36 221. T2 Reveals Spatial Collagen Architecture in Articular Cartilage: A Comparative Quantitative MRI and Polarized Light Microscopic Study, M.T. Nieminen, J. Rieppo, J. Töyräs, J.M. Hakumäki, M.J. Silvennoinen, M.M. Hyttinen, H.J. Helminen and J.S. Jurvelin, Kuopio University Hospital and University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland. |
| 16:48 222. Spatial Variation in Cartilage T2 of the Knee Joint, H.E. Smith, T.J. Mosher, B.G. Collins, C.M. Collins, Q.X. Yang, B.J. Dardzinski, V.J. Schmithorst and M.B. Smith, The Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey PA, USA; Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA. |
| 17:00 223. Spatial Variation of Cartilage T2 in the Immature Pediatric Knee, B.J. Dardzinski, T. Laor, V.J. Schmithorst and L.A. Klosterman, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA. |
| 17:12 224. The Dynamics and Equilibria of Cartilage Gd-DTPA-2 Uptake, J.H. Kaufman, U. Duvvuri, S.B. Kudchodkar, E.A. Noyszewski, R.R. Regatte, R. Reddy and J.S. Leigh, University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA. |
| 17:24 225. The Role of T2 and Gd-DTPA Enhanced T1 Relaxation in Mapping Degraded Articular Cartilage, A.M. Herneth, V. Mlynarik, M. Huber, A. Ba-Ssalamah, H. Imhof and S. Trattnig, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. |
| 17:36 226. In-vitro Assessment of Cationic and Anionic Contrasting Agents in Early-OA Proteoglycan Depletion of Articular Cartilage, P.J. Lattanzio, A.Z. Damyanovich, K.W. Marshall and H. Peemoeller, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. |
| 17:48 227. Proteoglycan Distribution Across Articular Cartilage as Determined by ²³Na MRI, E.M. Shapiro, A. Borthakur, J.S. Leigh and R. Reddy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. |