ArticleDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2022
To Contrast or Not to Contrast? On the Role of Contrast Enhancement in Hand MRI Studies of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis.
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- Proton-density fat-saturated non-contrast MR imaging is comparable to post-contrast MR imaging for revealing wrist synovitis.Insights into imaging · 2026Article
- Whole-body magnetic resonance imaging in rheumatology: advancements, key applications and future perspectives.La Radiologia medica · 2026Review
- Limited discriminatory value of RAMRIS findings between RA and hand osteoarthritis: a cross-sectional MRI study.Rheumatology international · 2026Article
- A simplified fluid-sensitive MRI protocol for the hands to detect inflammation without contrast administration: a large study of symptom-free subjects from the general population as a reference for normality.Skeletal radiology · 2025Article
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)-Based Semi-Quantitative Methods for Rheumatoid Arthritis: From Scoring to Measurement.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Adaptive IoU Thresholding for Improving Small Object Detection: A Proof-of-Concept Study of Hand Erosions Classification of Patients with Rheumatic Arthritis on X-ray Images.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Currently, clinical indications for the application of gadolinium-based contrast agents (GBCA) in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are increasingly being questioned. Consequently, this study aimed to evaluate the additional diagnostic value of contrast enhancement in MRI of the hand in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Thirty-one patients with RA (mean age, 50 ± 14 years (range, 18-72 years)) underwent morphologic MRI scans on a clinical 3 T scanner. MRI studies were analyzed based on (1) the Rheumatoid Arthritis Magnetic Resonance Imaging Score (RAMRIS) and (2) the GBCA-free RAMRIS version, termed RAMRIS Sine-Gadolinium-For-Experts (RAMRIS-SAFE), in which synovitis and tenosynovitis were assessed using the short-tau inversion-recovery sequence instead of the post-contrast T1-weighted sequence. The synovitis subscores in terms of Spearman's
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