The goal of the Musculoskeletal Radiology Journal Club is to provide a forum for students, researchers and clinicians to discuss both past and current research articles with an eye towards identifying or fostering the development of imaging techniques that will advance medical practice and patient care.

Meetings will be topic driven. Each topic will have several weeks of specific article reviews relevant to the topic area, and a set of more general reviews posted to the group's website. The format for each meeting will consist of one journal club member providing a 15-20 minute summary of a recent research article (or articles) followed by open discussion. PowerPoint presentations are not necessary for reviews.

Please see the schedule below for a list of topics, presenters and links to papers for discussion as well as relevant review articles. If you have further questions, please contact Chris Elder.

• Shin D, Finni T, Ahn S, Hodgson JA, Lee HD, Edgerton VR, Sinha S. Effect of chronic unloading and rehabilitation on human Achilles tendon properties: a velocity-encoded phase-contrast MRI study. J Appl Physiol. 2008 Oct;105(4):1179-86.

• Schmidt S, Vieweger A, Obst M, Mueller S, Gross V, Gutberlet M, Steinbrink J, Taubert S, Misselwitz B, Luedemann L, Spuler S. Dysferlin-deficient muscular dystrophy: gadofluorine M suitability at MR imaging in a mouse model. Radiology. 2009 Jan;250(1):87-94.

• Topic: ISMRM Advances in Musculoskeletal Radiology Conference, San Francisco

• Topic: What We Would Like to Measure in Cartilage
• Spindler KP, Wright RW. Clinical practice. Anterior cruciate ligament tear. N Engl J Med 2008 Nov 13;359(20):2135-42.

• Baroncelli GI. Quantitative ultrasound methods to assess bone mineral status in children: technical characteristics, performance, and clinical application. Pediatr Res 2008 Mar;63(3):220-8.
• Genant HK, Jiang Y. Advanced imaging assessment of bone quality. Ann NY Acad Sci 2006 Apr;1068:410-28.

• Kalpakcioglu BB, Morshed S, Engelke K, Genant HK. Advanced imaging of bone macrostructure and microstructure in bone fragility and fracture repair. J Bone Joint Surg Am 2008 Feb;90 Suppl 1:68-78.
• Genant HK, Engelke K, Prevrhal S. Advanced CT bone imaging in osteoporosis. Rheumatology (Oxford) 2008 Jul;47 Suppl 4:iv9-16.

• Techawiboonwong A, Song HK, Leonard MB, Wehrli FW. Cortical bone water: in vivo quantification with ultrashort echo-time MR imaging. Radiology 2008 Sep;248(3):824-33.

• Bessho M, Ohnishi I, Matsuyama J, Matsumoto T, Imai K, Nakamura K. Prediction of strength and strain of the proximal femur by a CT-based finite element method. J Biomech 2007;40(8):1745-53.
• Yosibash Z, Padan R, Joskowicz L, Milgrom C. A CT-based high-order finite element analysis of the human proximal femur compared to in-vitro experiments. J Biomech Eng 2007 Jun;129(3):297-309.

• Frost ML, Blake GM, Park-Holohan SJ, Cook GJ, Curran KM, Marsden PK, Fogelman I. Long-term precision of 18F-fluoride PET skeletal kinetic studies in the assessment of bone metabolism. J Nucl Med 2008;49(5):700-7.
• Hsu WK, Virk MS, Feeley BT, Stout DB, Chatziioannou AF, Lieberman JR. Characterization of osteolytic, osteoblastic, and mixed lesions in a prostate cancer mouse model using 18F-FDG and 18F-fluoride PET/CT. J Nucl Med 2008;49(3):414-21.

• Shen W, Liu H, Punyanitya M, Chen J, Heymsfield SB. Pediatric obesity phenotyping by magnetic resonance methods. Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care 2005;8:595-601.
• Goodpaster BH. Measuring body fat distribution and content in humans. Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care 2002;5:481-7.

• Kim H, Taksali SE, Dufour S, Befroy D, Goodman TR, Petersen KF, Shulman GI, Caprio S, Constable RT. Comparative MR study of hepatic fat quantification using single-voxel proton spectroscopy, two-point dixon and three-point IDEAL. Magn Reson Med 2008;59(3):521-7.
• Reeder SB, Wen Z, Yu H, Pineda AR, Gold GE, Markl M, Pelc NJ. Multicoil Dixon chemical species separation with an iterative least-squares estimation method. Magn Reson Med 2004 Jan;51(1):35-45.

• Shah PK, Gregory CM, Stevens JE, Pathare NC, Jayaraman A, Behrman AL, Walter GA, Vandenborne K. Non-invasive assessment of lower extremity muscle composition after incomplete spinal cord injury. Spinal Cord 2008 Aug;46(8):565-70.
• Boesch C, Machann J, Vermathen P, Schick F. Role of proton MR for the study of muscle lipid metabolism. NMR Biomed. 2006 Nov;19(7):968-88.