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Arthritis
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 475684, 19 pages
doi:10.1155/2011/475684
Review Article

Quantitative Cartilage Imaging in Knee Osteoarthritis

Felix Eckstein1,2 and Wolfgang Wirth1,2

1Institute of Anatomy and Musculoskeletal Research, Paracelsus Medical University, Strubergaβe 21, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
2Chondrometrics GmbH, 83404 Ainring, Germany

Received 19 August 2010; Accepted 25 October 2010

Academic Editor: Dirk Elewaut

Copyright © 2011 Felix Eckstein and Wolfgang Wirth. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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