Recent Advances in Musculoskeletal Imaging
A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Medical Imaging and Theranostics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 4723
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Musculoskeletal (MSK) disorders such as fractures, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, or ligament tears afflict the majority of the population in their lifetime, consecutively decreasing quality of life and causing tremendous healthcare costs all over the world. While traditional radiography and computed tomography (CT) are mainly used to diagnose diseases and changes in the bones such as fractures, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques have been widely used to assess soft tissue changes such as the degeneration of tendons, ligaments, menisci, and cartilage. More advanced, novel quantitative MRI techniques have also been investigated, providing information about the biochemical composition of different tissues as well as tissue connectivity. These novel MRI techniques include single- or multi-component relaxometry, magnetization transfer (MT), diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), and quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM), for example. Other novel and innovative imaging modalities such as PET/MR, spectral CT (SDCT) or photon-counting CT (PCCT) have surfaced as promising imaging techniques in MSK, visualizing molecular processes in more detail. In this Special Issue, novel imaging techniques in the broad field of MSK imaging and their clinical application are introduced.
Dr. Hyungseok Jang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- musculoskeletal imaging
- joint
- biomarker
- osteoarthritis
- osteoporosis
- tumor
- fracture
- imaging technique
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