EVALUATING DISEASE PROGRESSION USING MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING

摘要

An orthopedic magnetic resonance imaging system and imaging methods are provided. The system includes a source of imaging data sets from imaging a diseased joint of a patient, and is operative to segment surfaces in a joint based on information contained within at least one of the data sets, to register in three dimensions information represented by a data set with respect to information represented by one or more further data sets, and to detect differences between information represented by the data sets caused by progression of disease in the joint.