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Daichi Hayashi1, Frank W Roemer2, Ali Guermazi3
1Department of Radiology, Quantitative Imaging Center, Boston University School of Medicine, 820 Harrison Avenue, FGH Building, 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02118, USA; Department of Radiology, Stony Brook University Hospital, HSC Level 4, Room 120, Stony Brook, NY, 11794, USA.
Abstract:
Radiography remains the first-line imaging tool to characterize structural changes of osteoarthritis (OA) in both clinical and research settings, but MRI continues to play a large role in OA research. Compositional MRI enables evaluation of the biochemical properties of joint tissues, allowing assessment of early "premorphologic" changes that cannot be depicted on conventional MRI Hybrid PET-CT and PET-MRI allow integration of high-resolution structural information on CT and MRI with metabolic information obtained from PET related to OA disease process. We describe OA imaging by means of conventional radiography, MRI PET-CT, and PET-MRI.
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