Advanced MRI Techniques for Musculoskeletal Imaging

Dear colleagues,

This Special Issue on “Advanced MRI Techniques for Musculoskeletal Imaging” aims to attract high-quality research studies from imaging scientists, radiologists, and specialists from related fields that advance the application of state-of-the-art MR imaging techniques in scientific and clinical contexts. Potential areas of interest may be new and substantive developments in image acquisition techniques such as recent innovations in morphologic joint imaging, e.g., abbreviated MRI protocols, multi-contrast sequences, functional joint imaging under loading or traction, and quantitative joint imaging using compositional techniques such as sodium, DTI/DWI, T2, (UTE-)T2*, T1ρ, and Magnetization Transfer. Even though submitted research projects ought to be focused on joints and the intra- and periarticular soft tissues such as cartilage, ligaments/tendons, meniscus, and synovium, highly relevant submissions on bone will be considered too. Alongside image acquisition techniques, further areas of interest are sophisticated image analysis and pre- and post-processing methodologies. Submissions dealing with innovative machine learning or other artificial intelligence applications with scientific and/or clinical benefit will be considered for publication, too, if of relevance to the field of musculoskeletal imaging.

Overall, basic research, proof-of-concept and feasibility, and clinical studies with in-vitro, in-situ, or in-vivo designs dealing with trauma, degeneration, inflammation, or other conditions of clinical relevance on the tissue or joint level will be considered.

Dr. Sven Nebelung
Guest Editor

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