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ORIGINAL ARTICLE A Pilot Trial on Kinematic magnetised Resonance Imaging Using a Superconducting, Horizontally Opened, 1.2 T Magnetic Resonance System Daisuke Shimao*1, 2, PhD; Yoshikazu Shimada1, BMSc; Jiro Kobayashi1, Dip; Kazuyuki Kato3, BMSc; Tatsuya Misawa1, MD; Haruyasu Kato1, 4, MD, PhD; Michiko Dohi1, 5, MD, PhD Authors Affiliation: 1. japan Football Association (JFA) Medical Center Hospital, Fukushima, Japan 2. section of Radiological Sciences, Ibaraki Prefectural University of Health Sciences, Ibaraki, Japan 3. plane section of clinical Application, Hitachi Medical Corporation, Chiba, Japan 4. Department of Sport and Wellness, Rikkyo University, Saitama, Japan 5. Department of Sports Medicine, Japan Institute of Sports Sciences, Tokyo, Japan Abstract Purpose: This study was performed to introduce and valuate the potential of kinematic magnetic resonance imaging (KMRI) using a high-field openmagnet magnetic resonance (MR) system of rules. Methods: We attempted to perform KMRI of healthy volunteers lumbar spine and knee in the squint position and articulatio talocruralis in the supine position utilizing the superconducting, horizontally opened, 1.2 T MR system (OASIS, HITACHI, Tokyo, Japan).

For the KMRI of the lumbar spine, the volunteer had to lie on one human face while maintaining maximally anteflexed, neutral, and maximally retroflexed positions and remain sedate for the duration of the acquisition time for each posture. In the alike way, KMRI of the knee was performed with the volunteers knee flexed at 0º, 30º, 60º, 90º, and 120º in the lateral position, and KMRI of the ankle was performed with the volunteers ankle in maximally dorsiflexed, neutral, and maximally plantarflexed positions while lying in the supine position. Results: We could charter higher quality kinematic MR images than those acquired using low-field MR systems. The spinal canal, intervertebral discs and foramina, and look joints in lumbar spine KMRI; the ligaments, menisci and patellofemoral joint in... If you want to detect a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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