Quantitative MRI for evaluation of musculoskeletal disease: cartilage and muscle composition, joint inflammation, and biomechanics in osteoarthritis

BL Eck, M Yang, JJ Elias, CS Winalski… - Investigative …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a valuable tool for evaluating musculoskeletal disease
as it offers a range of image contrasts that are sensitive to underlying tissue biochemical …

Association of malalignment, muscular dysfunction, proprioception, laxity and abnormal joint loading with tibiofemoral knee osteoarthritis-a systematic review and …

JAC Van Tunen, A Dell'Isola, C Juhl, J Dekker… - BMC musculoskeletal …, 2018 - Springer
Background To investigate (1) the association of specific biomechanical factors with knee
osteoarthritis and knee osteoarthritis development, and (2) the impact of other relevant risk …

Skeletal muscle mitochondrial dysfunction is present in patients with CKD before initiation of maintenance hemodialysis

JL Gamboa, B Roshanravan, T Towse… - Clinical Journal of the …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Results We found a prolonged phosphocreatine recovery constant in patients on
maintenance hemodialysis (53.3 [43.4–70.1] seconds, median [interquartile range]) and …

Manually defining regions of interest when quantifying paravertebral muscles fatty infiltration from axial magnetic resonance imaging: a proposed method for the …

RJ Crawford, J Cornwall, R Abbott, JM Elliott - BMC musculoskeletal …, 2017 - Springer
Background There is increasing interest in paravertebral muscle composition as a potential
prognostic and diagnostic element in lumbar spine health. As a consequence, it is becoming …

Association of paraspinal muscle water–fat MRI-based measurements with isometric strength measurements

S Schlaeger, S Inhuber, A Rohrmeier, M Dieckmeyer… - European …, 2019 - Springer
Objectives Chemical shift encoding-based water–fat MRI derived proton density fat fraction
(PDFF) of the paraspinal muscles has been emerging as a surrogate marker in subjects with …

[HTML][HTML] Systemic and local adipose tissue in knee osteoarthritis

J Chang, Z Liao, M Lu, T Meng, W Han… - Osteoarthritis and cartilage, 2018 - Elsevier
Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common joint disease. Body adipose tissue has been
shown to be related to the development and progression of knee OA. Among systemic …

Magnetic resonance imaging assessments for knee segmentation and their use in combination with machine/deep learning as predictors of early osteoarthritis …

J Martel-Pelletier, P Paiement… - Therapeutic Advances …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a prevalent and disabling disease that can develop over
decades. This disease is heterogeneous and involves structural changes in the whole joint …

Deep learning-based thigh muscle segmentation for reproducible fat fraction quantification using fat–water decomposition MRI

J Ding, P Cao, HC Chang, Y Gao, SHS Chan… - Insights into …, 2020 - Springer
Background Time-efficient and accurate whole volume thigh muscle segmentation is a major
challenge in moving from qualitative assessment of thigh muscle MRI to more quantitative …

The role of skeletal muscle in the pathophysiology and management of knee osteoarthritis

P Krishnasamy, M Hall, SR Robbins - Rheumatology, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The role of skeletal muscle in the pathophysiology of knee OA is poorly understood. To date,
the majority of literature has focused on the association of muscle strength with OA …

Quantity and quality of the lower extremity muscles in women with knee osteoarthritis

M Taniguchi, Y Fukumoto, M Kobayashi… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2015 - Elsevier
The objective of the study described here was to compare lower extremity muscle quantity
and quality between individuals with and those without knee osteoarthritis (OA). Twenty-one …