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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2014 Oct;22(10):1349–1359. doi: 10.1016/j.joca.2014.05.016

Figure 1. Noninvasive imaging can probe the pathomechanics of osteoarthritis (OA).

Figure 1

Structural changes in the progression of OA are characterized by cartilage damage and loss, following [156]. Radiography indirectly identifies advanced OA through joint space narrowing. Functional imaging and quantitative MRI show promise to probe early OA, prior to the expression of gross changes in cartilage structure and morphology [143].