Siegfried Trattnig1, Sebastian Apprich1, Pavol Szomolanyi1,2, Marius Mayerhoefer1, Katja Pinker1, Tallal C. Mamisch3, Goetz H. Welsch1,4
1Department of Radiology, Medical University of Vienna, MR Centre - Highfield MR, Vienna, Austria; 2Department of Imaging Methods, Institute of Measurement Science, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia; 3Orthopedic Surgery Department, Inselspital Bern, Bern, Switzerland; 4Department of Trauma Surgery, University Hospital of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
Osteoarthrithis is a multifactorial and heterogeneous disease associated with a progressive loss of hyaline articular cartilage. The role of T2 mapping in different stages of cartilage degeneration is still not well defined.