High-resolution MRI of the wrist and finger joints in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: comparison of 1.5 Tesla and 3.0 Tesla

Gero Wieners1, J. Detert2, Florian Streitparth3, Maciej Pech1, Frank Fischbach3, Gerd R Burmester4, Jens Ricke1, Marina Backhaus4, H. Bruhn3
1Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicin, Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany
2Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
3Department of Radiology, Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
4Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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