TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Wrist MRI A1 - Golshan Momeni, Maryam A1 - Yoshioka, Hiroshi A2 - Tehranzadeh, Jamshid PY - 2016 T2 - Basic Musculoskeletal Imaging AB - In recent years, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become a very important modality for diagnosing wrist and hand diseases including osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), occult fracture, avascular necrosis (AVN), ligamentous/tendinous injuries, impaction syndrome, and nerve entrapment syndrome.1,2 MRI is a noninvasive and nonirradiative imaging tool, and can provide high soft tissue contrast resolution. Thin and contiguous slices are needed for adequate MR imaging of the wrist because even the larger ligaments of the wrist are no greater than 1–2 mm thick.3 New MRI techniques such as 3D volume acquisitions on higher magnetic fields improve signal to noise ratios and visualization of wrist structures in detail with a shorter scan time.4 SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accessphysiotherapy.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1127377702 ER -