Osteoarthritis and Cartilage
Volume 18, Issue 3 , Pages 358-364 , March 2010

Functional cartilage MRI T2 mapping: evaluating the effect of age and training on knee cartilage response to running

  • T.J. Mosher

      Affiliations

    • Penn State Center for NMR Research, Department of Radiology, The Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA 17033, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence and reprint requests to: T. J. Mosher, Department of Radiology, MC H066, The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, 500 University Drive, Hershey, PA 17033, USA. Tel: 1-717-531-4566; Fax: 1-717-531-8486.
    • ,
  • Y. Liu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Roseville Sacramento Medical Center, 1001 Riverside Avenue, Roseville CA 95678, USA
    • ,
  • C.M. Torok

      Affiliations

    • The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA

Received 24 July 2009 ,Accepted 18 November 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.joca.2009.11.011

Osteoarthritis and Cartilage
Volume 18, Issue 3 , Pages 358-364 , March 2010

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