Detection of Sacroiliitis by Short-tau Inversion Recovery and T2-weighted Turbo Spin Echo Sequences: Results from the SIMACT Study.

Juliane GreeseTorsten DiekhoffJoachim SieperCarsten SchwenkeMarcus R MakowskiDenis PoddubnyyBernd HammKay-Geert A Hermann

Published in: The Journal of rheumatology (2019)

T2-FS sequences improve image quality and hence the detection of osteitis compared to the PD-STIR sequence. More patients were classified as axSpA based on a positive MRI by T2-FS.

Keyphrases

contrast enhanced
image quality
end stage renal disease
magnetic resonance
magnetic resonance imaging
computed tomography
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
chronic kidney disease
diffusion weighted
real time pcr
label free
peritoneal dialysis
cerebrospinal fluid
density functional theory
molecular dynamics