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McWalter EJ, O’Kane CM, Fitzpatrick DP, Wilson DR. Validation of an MRI-based method to assess patellofemoral joint contact areas in loaded knee flexion in vivo. J Magn Reson Imaging. April 2014;39(4):978-987.

Publication Date
April 2014

How Analyze was Used
“To assess contact area using the MR images, two different methods were used to identify regions of in-slice contact using commercially available image processing software (Analyze 8.0, AnalyzeDirect, Overland Park, KS).”

Keywords
Contact Area
Kinematics
Knee
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Patella
Patellofemoral
Validation

Author Affiliation(s)
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. (EJM)

School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. (CMO, DPF)

School of Manufacturing and Design Engineering, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland. (CMO)

Department of Orthopedics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. (DRW)

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Tags: Contact Area, Kinematics, Knee, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Patella, Patellofemoral, Validation