ACR Meeting Abstracts
Abstract Number: 1176 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
Valentina Pedoia1, Favian Su2, Andrew J. Burghardt1, Jonathan Graft3, John B. Imboden3, Mary Nakamura4, Ursula Heilmeier1, Thomas M Link5 and Xiaojuan Li5, 1Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging, Musculoskeletal Quantitative Imaging Research, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, 2Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Musculoskeletal Quantitative Imaging Research, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, 3Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, 4Arthritis/Rheumatology 111-R, SFVAMC/UCSF, San Francisco, CA, 5Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Musculoskeletal Quantitative Imaging Research, UCSF, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose Rheumatoid arthritic (RA) disease progression and anti-rheumatic treatment efficacy have traditionally been monitored by evaluation of radiographs. However, MRI has emerged as a more…