The SPECTRA Collaboration OMERACT Special Interest Group: Current Research and Future Directions

Kathryn S Stok1,2, Stephanie Finzel3,4, Andrew J Burghardt3,4

  • 1From the Institute for Biomechanics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA; Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds and UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leeds Biomedical Research Centre, Leeds, UK; Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary; McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. kstok@unimelb.edu.au.

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