The musculoskeletal system includes many kinds of tissues such as bones, cartilages, muscles, tendons, and ligaments. These tissues work together to support body weight and movement. MRI, with its excellent soft-tissue contrast, has established itself as a fundamental modality for the assessment of musculoskeletal abnormalities in clinical practice. MRI has been applied to almost every joint for the assessment of a variety of anatomy and pathology ranging from bone fractures, ligamental injuries to articular cartilage lesions. Musculoskeletal MR imaging techniques continue evolving in many aspects, such as new developments of hardware, imaging sequences, and postprocessing, as well as computer-aided diagnostic tools. These advanced techniques could improve the accuracy of diagnosis, reduce the acquisition time, and help the early detection of tissue degeneration.
This Research Topic aims at bringing together the advanced MR imaging techniques being currently developed for application in the musculoskeletal system, and provide a vision on how these techniques would change the understanding of disease progression and the routine clinical diagnosis in the future.
The Topic Editors welcome various types of articles including original articles, hypotheses & theory, technology & code articles, as well as reviews and mini-reviews. Musculoskeletal studies in human or animal models are all well accepted for submission. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
1. High field MR imaging
2. Advanced MRI sequence development, validation, or application
3. Advanced MR image postprocessing technique development, validation, or application
4. Artificial Intelligence in MRI.
COI: Dr. Wu is an employee of GE Healthcare.
The musculoskeletal system includes many kinds of tissues such as bones, cartilages, muscles, tendons, and ligaments. These tissues work together to support body weight and movement. MRI, with its excellent soft-tissue contrast, has established itself as a fundamental modality for the assessment of musculoskeletal abnormalities in clinical practice. MRI has been applied to almost every joint for the assessment of a variety of anatomy and pathology ranging from bone fractures, ligamental injuries to articular cartilage lesions. Musculoskeletal MR imaging techniques continue evolving in many aspects, such as new developments of hardware, imaging sequences, and postprocessing, as well as computer-aided diagnostic tools. These advanced techniques could improve the accuracy of diagnosis, reduce the acquisition time, and help the early detection of tissue degeneration.
This Research Topic aims at bringing together the advanced MR imaging techniques being currently developed for application in the musculoskeletal system, and provide a vision on how these techniques would change the understanding of disease progression and the routine clinical diagnosis in the future.
The Topic Editors welcome various types of articles including original articles, hypotheses & theory, technology & code articles, as well as reviews and mini-reviews. Musculoskeletal studies in human or animal models are all well accepted for submission. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
1. High field MR imaging
2. Advanced MRI sequence development, validation, or application
3. Advanced MR image postprocessing technique development, validation, or application
4. Artificial Intelligence in MRI.
COI: Dr. Wu is an employee of GE Healthcare.
