In vivo structural analysis of articular
In vivo structural analysis of articular cartilage using diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging
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Takashi Azuma; Ryusuke Nakai; Osamu Takizawa; Sadami Tsutsumi
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Article
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2009
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Elsevier Science
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English
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## Purpose: The articular cartilage is a small tissue with a matrix structure of three layers between which the orientation of collagen fiber differs. a diffusion-weighted twice-refocused spin-echo echo-planar imaging (se-epi) sequence was optimized for the articular cartilage, and the structure of