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Acta Orthopaedica Volume 86, 2015 - Issue 5
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Original Articles

Articular cartilage of the knee 3 years after ACL reconstruction

A quantitative T2 relaxometry analysis of 10 knees

Ji-Hoon BaeBioengineering Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston;Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Korea University Guro Hospital, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of KoreaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Ali HosseiniBioengineering Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, BostonCorrespondence[email protected]
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Yang WangDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CambridgeCorrespondence[email protected]
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Martin TorrianiDivision of Musculoskeletal Imaging and Intervention, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, BostonCorrespondence[email protected]
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Thomas J GillHarvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Alan J GrodzinskyDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CambridgeCorrespondence[email protected]
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Guoan LiBioengineering Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, BostonCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 605-610 | Received 17 Dec 2014, Accepted 09 Mar 2015, Published online: 01 Sep 2015

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