Cartilage: Basic Science

Room B 217-218      10:30 - 12:30                                 Chairs: Deborah Burstein and Thomas M. Link

10:30      198.    Optimization and Reproducibility Evaluation of Volumetric Cartilage Measurements of the Knee at 1.5T and 3T - not available

Jan Stefan Bauer1, Christian Ross1, Xiaojuan Li1, Julio Carballido-Gamio1, Suchandrima Banerjee1, Roland Krug1, Eugene Ozhinsky1, Sharmila Majumdar1, Thomas Marc Link1

1University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
 

10:42      199.    Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Cartilage - not available

Xiang Deng1, Michelle Farley2, Martha Gray2, Deborah Burstein1,2

1Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; 2Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
 

10:54      200.    Orientational Dependence of Compressed Cartilage by µMRI T2 Anisotropy - not available

Yang Xia1, Hisham A. Alhadlaq1

1Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA
 

11:06      201.    Temporary Detrimental Effect of a High Field 3 Tesla Magnetic Resonance to Chondrocyte Activity - not available

Siegfried Trattnig1, Katja Pinker1, Vladimir Mlynarik1, Christina Plank, Josef Smolen, Klaus Bobacz

1MR Centre of Excellence, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria
 

11:18      202.    T2 Relaxation Time of Human Articular Cartilage at 1.5T and 9.4T: Correlation with Tissue Mechanical Properties

Eveliina Lammentausta1, Panu Kiviranta1, Mikko Johannes Nissi2, Mikko Sakari Laasanen2, Ilkka Kiviranta3,

Jukka Sakari Jurvelin1,2, Miika Tapio Nieminen4

1University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland; 2Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland; 3Jyväskylä Central Hospital, Jyväskylä, Finland; 4Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
 

11:30      203.    Spatial Relaxivity of Gadolinium Complexes in Articular Cartilage

Mikko Johannes Nissi1, Miika Tapio Nieminen2, Jukka Sakari Jurvelin, 1,3

1Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland; 2Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland; 3University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland
 

11:42      204.    Efficient Incorporation and Slow Release of Manganese Indicating Its Potential Use as a Contrast Agent for Articular Cartilage

Galit Saar1, Hadassah Shinar1, Gil Navon1

1Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israe
 

11:54      205.    Correlation of Cartilage Biochemical and Biomechanical Properties with T Relaxation

Andrew J. Wheaton1, George R. Dodge2, Dawn M. Elliott1, Steven B. Nicoll1, Ravinder Reddy1

1University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; 2A.I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
 

12:06      206.    How Does Cartilage T2 Change After Selective Enzymatic Degradation?

Thomas Mendlik1, Sabine Wagner1, Stephan Schulz1, Stefan Milz1, Elisabeth Rauch1, Maximilian Reiser1,

Christian Glaser1

1Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
 

12:18      207.    Determination of Elastic Properties of Articular Cartilage  (not available)

Wilfried Gründer1

1Institut of Medical Physics and Biophysics, Leipzig, Saxonia, Germany