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Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MRI of Rheumatoid Arthritis and Anti-TNFalpha Treatment.

Richard Hodgson¹, Sylvia Connolly¹, Theresa Barnes¹, Robert Campbell², Brian Eyes³, John Patrick Wilson¹, Robert Moots¹

¹University of Liverpool, Liverpool, Merseyside, UK; ²Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, Merseyside, UK; ³University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool, Merseyside, UK

The Use of Magnetic Resonance Angiography (MRA) in the Assessment of Synovial Disease in

Patients with Early Rheumatoid Arthritis

Li Foong Foo¹, Shari T. Jawetz¹, Lisa C. Vasanth¹, Lisa A. Mandl¹, Ronald S. Adler¹, Hollis G. Potter¹

¹Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York, USA

Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MRI Assessment of Synovitis in Hemophilic Arthropathy

Jonathan P. Dyke¹, Douglas N. Mintz², Robert Schloss¹, Akhil Narang¹, Ronald S. Adler², Douglas Ballon¹, Donna M. DiMichele¹, Suchitra S. Acharya¹

¹Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, USA; ²Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, USA

Magnetization Transfer Contrast in MRI as a Diagnostic and Monitoring Tool for Muscular Dystrophy

Nathan D. Bryant¹, Gabriel S. Gaidosh¹, Sean Germain¹, Christina A. Pacak¹, Fan Ye¹, Krista Vandenborne¹, Glenn A. Walter¹

¹University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA

Magnesium (Mg) and ATP Abnormalities Correlate with Weakness in Chronic Alcoholic Myopathy

Jane H. Park¹, Terri L. Riutcel², Brittany C. Lee¹, Peter R. Martin¹

¹Vanderbilt University Medical School, Nashville, Tennessee, USA; ²Willford Hall Medical Center, Lackland AFB, Texas, USA

Trabecular Structure Measured with the MRI-Based Virtual Bone Biopsy at a Surrogate Site Contributes to Vertebral Fracture Load Independently of Spinal BMD

Felix W. Wehrli¹, Glenn A. Ladinsky¹, Branimir Vasilic¹, Andra Popescu¹, Michael Wald¹, Babette Zemel², Hee Kwon Song¹, Punam K. Saha¹, Louise Loh¹, Peter J. Snyder¹

¹University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; ²Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

MRI and Quantitative T2 Mapping of Cartilage Repair Using Synthetic Biphasic Acellular Scaffold

Li Foong Foo¹, Shari T. Jawetz¹, Riley J. Williams III¹, Hollis G. Potter¹

¹Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York, USA

Three-Dimensional Delayed Gadolinium Enhanced MRI of Cartilage (dGEMRIC) for In Vivo Evaluation of

Reparative Cartilage After Matrix-Associated Autologous Chondrocyte Transplantation at 3.0

Tesla – Preliminary Results

Siegfried Trattnig¹, Stefan Marlovits², Simone Gebetsroither¹, Pavol Szomolanyi¹, ³, Atsuya Watanabe⁴, Oliver Stastny⁵, Michael Deimling⁶, Charles Tallal Mamisch⁷

¹Department of Radiology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; ²Center for Joints and Cartilage, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; ³Institute of Measurement Science, Bratislava, Slovakia; ⁴Magnetic Spectroscopy and Methodology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; ⁵Zentralklinikum, St.Pölten, Austria; ⁶Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany; ⁷Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland

Degeneration-Induced Depth-Wise Variation in T2 Relaxation Time of Human Patellar Cartilage at 1.5T

Eveliina Lammentausta¹, Panu Kiviranta¹, Juha Töyräs², Ilkka Kiviranta³, Miika T. Nieminen⁴, Jukka S. Jurvelin¹

¹University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland; ²Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland; ³Jyväskylä Central Hospital, Jyväskylä, Finland; ⁴Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
 

T2-Star Relaxation as a Means to Diffrentiatie Cartilage Repair Tissue After Microfracturing Therapy

Timothy Hughes¹, Götz H. Welsch², Siegfried Trattnig², Luisa Brandi², Stephan Domayer², Tallal C. Mamisch³

¹Siemens AG, Erlangen, Bayern, Germany; ²Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; ³University Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Dramatic Changes in the ²³Na Signal in Cartilage of Excised Human Osteoporotic Femoral Heads

Keren Keinan-Adamsky¹, Hadassah Shinar¹, Shay Shabat², Y S. Brin², Meir Nyska², Gil Navon¹

¹Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; ²Meir Hospital, Kfar Saba, Israel

Diffusion Tensor Imaging as an Early Marker for Osteoarthritis

Osama M. Abdullah¹, Shadi F. Othman¹, Xiaohong Joe Zhou¹, Richard L. Magin¹

¹University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA