High-resolution morphological and biochemical imaging of articular cartilage of the ankle joint at 3.0 T using a new dedicated phased array coil: in vivo reproducibility study.

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Published in Skeletal Radiol on June 01, 2008

Authors

Goetz H Welsch1, Tallal C Mamisch, Michael Weber, Wilhelm Horger, Klaus Bohndorf, Siegfried Trattnig

Author Affiliations

1: MR Center, Department of Radiology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. welsch@bwh.harvard.edu

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