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Xiaojuan Li, PhD

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Director, Program for Advanced Musculoskeletal Imaging
Email: [email protected]
Location: Cleveland Clinic Main Campus

Research

Our laboratory’s focus is on exploring and developing advanced musculoskeletal imaging techniques for a range of orthopaedic and rheumatologic disorders. Collaborations originating in my laboratory and in the new Program in Advanced Medical Imaging will establish Cleveland Clinic as a source of advanced translational imaging, with the aim of providing better healthcare to patients with musculoskeletal conditions.


Biography


Education & Professional Highlights

Research

Research

My team’s multidisciplinary research focuses on developing advanced imaging and image processing techniques to improve early diagnosis and treatment for significant musculoskeletal diseases, including osteoarthritis, inflammatory arthritis, sports injury, and osteoporosis.

We develop sophisticated quantitative magnetic resonance (MRI) and magnetic resonance spectroscopic (MRSI) imaging techniques (new pulse sequences, fast imaging with novel reconstruction) and image‑/data‑processing methodologies. These techniques enable us to: 1) detect early cartilage degeneration and inflammation-related abnormalities/lesions; 2) quantify bone shapes; 3) link MRI and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measures with molecular activities in tissues; 4) quantify bone marrow adiposity, and; 5) explore the relationship with bone quantity/quality.

We have also begun performing research in applying machine-learning/deep-learning techniques for novel reconstruction of accelerated MRI acquisition, automatic tissue segmentation and lesion detection, and automatic diagnostic grading and prediction of patient outcomes.

I am also founding director of the collaborative Program in Advanced Medical Imaging (PAMI), with Carl S. Winalski, MD, Diagnostic Radiology, as Clinical Director. PAMI brings together a number of disciplines, within and outside Cleveland Clinic, to advance musculoskeletal imaging for orthopaedics and rheumatology through technology development, translational research, and education. We aim to establish the PAMI center as a robust global resource for musculoskeletal imaging-based research.

Our Team

Our Team

Publications

Selected Publications

  1. Desai AD, Caliva F, Iriondo C, Khosravan N, Mortazi A, Jambawalikar S, Torigian D, Ellerman J, Akcakaya M, Bagci U, Tibrewala R, Flament I, O’Brian M, Majumdar S, Perslev M, Pai A, Igel C, Dam EB, Gaj S, Yang M, Nakamura K, Li X, Deniz CM, Juras V, Regatte R, Gold GE, Hargreaves BA, Pedoia B, Chaudhari AS. The International Workshop on Osteoarthritis Imaging Knee MRI Segmentation Challenge: A Multi-Institute Evaluation and Analysis Framework on a Standardized Dataset, Radiology AI, in press.
  2. Kim J, Mamoto K, Lartey R, Xu K, Nakamura K, Shin W, Winalski CS, Obuchowski N, Tanaka M, Bahroos E, Link TM, Hardy P, Peng Q, Reddy R, Bemden AB, Liu K, Peters RD, Wu C, Li X, Multivendor multisite T1rho and T2 quantification of knee cartilage, Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 2020 Dec;28(12):1539-1550. doi: 10.1016/j.joca.2020.07.005.Epub 2020 Jul 30.
  3. Gaj S, Yang M, Nakamura K, Li X. Automated cartilage and meniscus segmentation of knee MRI with conditional generative adversarial networks. Magn Reson Med. 2020;84(1):437-49. Epub 2019/12/04. doi: 10.1002/mrm.28111. PubMed PMID: 31793071.
  4. Guimaraes JB, Schwaiger BJ, Gersing AS, Neumann J, Facchetti L, Li X, Joseph GB, Link TM, Meniscal Ramp Lesions: Frequency, Natural History and the Effect on Knee Cartilage over 2 Years in Subjects with Anterior Cruciate Ligament Tears, Skeletal Radiology, 2021 Mar;50(3):551-558. doi: 10.1007/s00256-020-03596-5. Epub 2020 Sep 8.
  5. Oak SR, Cantrell WA, Altahawi F, Li X, Winalski CS, Flanigan DC, Reinke EK, Huston LJ, Jones MH, Spindler KP, Do Bone-Patellar Tendon-Bone ACL Reconstructed Knees have more MRI signs of Patellofemoral Post-Traumatic Osteoarthritis than their Uninjured Contralateral Knee at 2 Years? Orthop J Sports Med, 2021 Jan 12;9(1):2325967120973050. doi: 10.1177/2325967120973050.eCollection 2021 Jan.
  6. Friedman JM, Su F, Zhang AL, Allen CR, Feeley BT, Souza R, Li X, Ma CB, Lansdown DA, Patient Reported Activity Levels Correlate with Early Cartilage Degeneration after Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Am J Sports Med. 2021 Jan 4;363546520980431. doi: 10.1177/0363546520980431.Online ahead of print.
  7. Finzel S, Manske SL, Barnabe CC, Burghardt AJ, Marotte H, Scharmga A, Hauge EM, Chapurlat R, Engelke K, Li X, Teeffelen B, Conaghan PG, Stok KS, Reliability and Change in Erosion Measurements by High-Resolution peripheral Quantitative Computed Tomography in a Longitudinal Dataset of Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients.J Rheumatol. 2020 Sep 15;jrheum.191391. doi: 10.3899/jrheum.191391. Online ahead of print.
  8. Subhas N, Li H, Yang M, Winalski CS, Polster J, Obuchowski N, Mamoto K, Liu R, Zhang C, Huang P, Gaire SK, Liang D, Shen B, Li X, Ying L. Diagnostic interchangeability of deep convolutional neural networks reconstructed knee MR images: preliminary experience. Quant Imaging Med Surg 2020 Sep;10(9):1748-1762. doi: 10.21037/qims-20-664.
  9. Orozco GA, Bolcos P, Mohammadi A, Tanaka MS, Yang M, Link TM, Ma CB, Li X, Tanska P, Korhonen RK, Prediction of local fixed charge density loss in cartilage following ACL injury and reconstruction: a computational proof-of-concept study with MRI, J Orthop Res. 2020 Jul 8;10.1002/jor.24797. doi: 10.1002/jor.24797. Online ahead of print.
  10. Lansdown DA, Xiao W, Zhang AL, Allen CR, Feeley BT, Li X, Majumdar S, Ma CB. Quantitative imaging of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) graft demonstrates longitudinal compositional changes and relationships with clinical outcomes at 2 years after ACL reconstruction. J Orthop Res. 2020 Jun;38(6):1289-1295. doi: 10.1002/jor.24572. Epub 2020 Jan 5.
  11. Li AK, Ochoa JK, Pedoia V, Amano K, Souza RB, Li X, Ma CB, Altered Tibiofemoral Position Following ACL Reconstruction is Associated with Cartilage Matrix Changes: A Voxel Based Relaxometry Analysis, J Ortho Res 2020 May 5. doi: 10.1002/jor.24708. Online ahead of print.
  12. Li AK, Pedoia V, Tanaka M, Souza RB, Ma CB, Li X. Six month post-surgical elevations in cartilage T1rho relaxation times are associated with functional performance 2 years after ACL reconstruction. J Orthop Res. 2020 May;38(5):1132-1140. doi: 10.1002/jor.24544. Epub 2019 Dec 11.
  13. Shimizu T, Markes AR, Samaan MA, Tanaka MS, Souza RB, Li X, Ma CB. Patients with Abnormal Limb Kinetics at 6 Months After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Have an Increased Risk of Persistent Medial Meniscal Abnormality at 3 Years. Orthopaedic journal of sports medicine. 2020;8(1):2325967119895248. Epub 2020/02/08. doi: 10.1177/2325967119895248. PubMed PMID: 32030346; PMCID: PMC6978828.
  14. Li X, Schwartz AV. MRI Assessment of Bone Marrow Composition in Osteoporosis. Curr Osteoporos Rep. 2020 Feb;18(1):57-66. doi: 10.1007/s11914-020-00562-x.
  15. Woods GN, Ewing SK, Sigurdsson S, Kado DM, Eiriksdottir G, Gudnason V, Hue TF, Lang TF, Vittinghoff E, Harris TB, Rosen C, Xu K, Li X, Schwartz AV. Greater Bone Marrow Adiposity Predicts Bone Loss in Older Women. J Bone Miner Res. 2020 Feb;35(2):326-332. doi: 10.1002/jbmr.3895. Epub 2019 Nov 14.
  16. Stok KS, Burghardt AJ, Boutroy S, Peters MPH, Manske SL, Stadelmann V, Vilayphiou N, van den Bergh JP, Geusens P, Li X,Marotte H, van Rietbergen B, Boyd SK, Barnabe C, SPECTRA Collaboration, Consensus approach for 3D joint space width of metacarpophalangeal joints of rheumatoid arthritis patients using high-resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography, Quant Imaging Med Surg, 2020 Feb; 10(2):314-325. doi: 10.21037/qims.2019.12.11.
  17. Beckford-Vera DR, Gonzalez-Junca A, Janneck JS, Huynh TL, Blecha JE, Seo Y, Li X, VanBrocklin VF, Franc BL, PET/CT imaging of human TNFα using 89Zr-certolizumab pegol in a transgenic preclinical model of rheumatoid arthritis, Molecular Imaging and Biology, Mol Imaging Biol 2020 Feb;22(1):105-114. doi: 10.1007/s11307-019-01363-0
  18. Shimizu T, Cheng Z, Samann MA, Tanaka MS, Souza RB, Li X, Ma CB, Increases in Joint Laxity After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Are Associated With Sagittal Biomechanical Asymmetry, Arthroscopy, 35(7):2072-2079. doi: 10.1016/j.arthro.2019.01.050. Epub 2019 Jun 18.
  19. Heilmeier U, Mamoto K, Amano K, Eck B, Tanaka M, Bullen JA, Schwaiger BJ, Huebner JL, Stabler TV, Kraus VB, Ma CB, Link TM, Li X, Infrapatellar fat pad abnormalities are associated with a higher inflammatory synovial fluid cytokine profile and may have a potential role in the development of posttraumatic OA following ACL tears, Osteoarthritis Cartilage 2019 Sep 14. pii: S1063-4584(19)31206-3. doi: 10.1016/j.joca.2019.09.001. [Epub ahead of print]
  20. Bolcos PO, Mononen ME, Tanaka MS, Yang M, Suomalainen JS, Nissi MJ, Töyräs J, Ma B, Li X, Korhonen RK, Identification of locations susceptible to osteoarthritis in patients with anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: Combining knee joint computational modelling with follow-up T1ρ and T2 imaging, Clin Biomech (Bristol, Avon). 2019 Aug 9. pii: S0268-0033(18)31029-5. doi: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2019.08.004. [Epub ahead of print]
  21. Keenan KE, Biller JR, Delfino JG, Boss MA, Does MD, Evelhoch JL, Griswold MA, Gunter JL, Hinks RS, Hoffman SW, Kim G, Lattanzi R, Li X, Marinelli L, Metzger GJ, Mukherjee P, Nordstrom RJ, Peskin AP, Perez E, Russek SE, Sahiner B, Serkova N, Shukla-Dave A, Steckner M, Stupic KF, Wilmes LJ, Wu HH, Zhang H, Jackson EF, Sullivan DC, Recommendations towards standards for quantitative MRI (qMRI) and outstanding needs, J Magn Reson Imaging. 2019 Jun;49(7):e26-e39. doi: 10.1002/jmri.26598. Epub 2019 Jan 24.
  22. Zhong Q, Pedoia V, Tanaka M, Neumann J, Link TM, Ma CB, Lin J, Li X, 3D Bone-shape changes and their correlations with cartilage T1ρ and T2 relaxation times and patient-reported outcomes over 3-years after ACL reconstruction, Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2019 Jun;27(6):915-921. doi: 10.1016/j.joca.2019.01.017. Epub 2019 Feb 23.
  23. Li X, Roemer FW, Compositional changes predict morphologic cartilage lesion development - are we one step closer to clinical translation of quantitative MRI? Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2019 May;27(5):723-725. doi: 10.1016/j.joca.2019.01.014.Epub 2019 Feb 6.
  24. Wan C, Ge L, Souza RB, Tang SY, Alliston T, Hao Z, Li X, T1ρ-based fibril-reinforced poroviscoelastic constitutive relation of human articular cartilage using inverse finite element technology, Quant Imaging Med Surg 2019 Mar;9(3):359-370. doi: 10.21037/qims.2019.03.01.
  25. Markes AR, Knox J, Zhong Q, Pedoia V, Li X, Ma CB, An Abnormal Tibial Position Is Associated With Alterations in the Meniscal Matrix: A 3-Year Longitudinal Study After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction. Orthop J Sports Med. 2019 Jan 10;7(1):2325967118820057. doi: 10.1177/2325967118820057. eCollection 2019 Jan.
  26. Woods GN, Ewing SK, Sigurdsson S, Kado DM, Ix JH, Hue TF, Eiriksdottir G, Xu K, Gudnason V, Lang TF, Vittinghoff E, Harris TB, Rosen CJ, Li X, Schwartz AV. Chronic Kidney Disease Is Associated With Greater Bone Marrow Adiposity. J Bone Miner Res. 2018 Dec;33(12):2158-2164. doi: 10.1002/jbmr.3562. Epub 2018 Aug 27.
  27. Bolcos PO, Mononen ME, Mohammadi A, Ebrahimi M, Tanaka MS, Samaan MA, Souza RB, Li X, Suomalainen JS, Jurvelin JS, Töyräs J, Korhonen RK, Comparison between kinetic and kinetic-kinematic driven knee joint finite element models. Sci Rep. 2018 Nov 26;8(1):17351. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-35628-5.
  28. Chen E, Amano K, Pedoia V, Souza RB, Ma CB, Li X, Longitudinal analysis of tibiofemoral cartilage contact area and position in ACL reconstructed patients. J Orthop Res. 2018 Oct;36(10):2718-2727. doi: 10.1002/jor.24024. Epub 2018 Jun 13.
  29. Link TM, Li X, Establishing compositional MRI of cartilage as a biomarker for clinical practice, Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2018 Sep;26(9):1137-1139. doi: 10.1016/j.joca.2018.02.902. Epub 2018 Mar 15.
  30. Guimaraes JB, Facchetti L, Schwaiger BJ, Gersing A, Li X, Link TM, Natural Evolution of Popliteomeniscal Fascicle Tears over Two Years and its Association with Lateral Articular Knee Cartilage Degeneration in Patients with Traumatic Anterior Cruciate Ligament Tear. Eur Radiol. 2018 Aug;28(8):3542-3549. doi: 10.1007/s00330-017-5279-9. Epub 2018 Feb 23.
  31. Knox J, Pedoia V, Wang A, Tanaka M, Joseph GB, Neumann J, Link TM, Li X, Ma CB, Longitudinal changes in MR T1p/T2 signal of meniscus and its association with cartilage T1p/T2 in ACL-injured patients. Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2018 May;26(5):689-696. doi: 10.1016/j.joca.2018.02.001. Epub 2018 Feb 10.
  32. Amano K, Huebner JL, Stabler TV, Tanaka M, McCulloch CE, Lobach I, Lane NE, Kraus VB, Ma CB, Li X, Synovial fluid profile at the time of ACL reconstruction and its association with cartilage matrix composition 3 years after surgery, Am J Sports Med, 2018 Mar;46(4):890-899. doi: 10.1177/0363546517749834. Epub 2018 Jan 24. PMID: 29364702
  33. Mistry SD, Woods GN, Sigurdsson S, Ewing SK, Hue TF, Eiriksdottir G, Xu K, Hilton JF, Kado DM, Gudnason V, Harris TB, Rosen CJ, Lang TF, Li X, Schwartz AV, Sex hormones are negatively associated with vertebral bone marrow fat, BONE, 2018 Mar;108:20-24. doi: 10.1016/j.bone.2017.12.009. Epub 2017 Dec 11.
  34. Xu K, Sigurdsson S, Gudnason V, Hue T, Schwartz AV, Li X, Reliable Quantification of Marrow Fat Content and Unsaturation Level Using in Vivo MR Spectroscopy, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2018 Mar;79(3):1722-1729. doi: 10.1002/mrm.26828. Epub 2017 Jul 16. PMID: 28714169
  35. Kumar D, Su F, Daniel W, Pedoia V, Heitkamp L, Ma CB, Souza RB, Li X, Frontal plane knee mechanics and early cartilage degeneration in people with ACL reconstruction: A longitudinal study, American Journal of Sports Medicine, 2018 Feb;46(2):378-387. doi: 10.1177/0363546517739605. Epub 2017 Nov 10.
  36. Azus A, Teng HL, Tufts L, Wu D, Ma CB, Souza R, Li X, Biomechanical Factors Associate with Pain and Symptoms Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury and Reconstruction, The Journal of Injury, Function and Rehabilitation, 2018 Jan;10(1):56-63. doi: 10.1016/j.pmrj.2017.05.004. Epub 2017 Jun 8
  37. Teng HL, Wu D, Su F, Pedoia V, Asuz AR, Souza RB, Ma CB, Li X, Gait Characteristics Associated with Greater Increase in Medial Knee Cartilage T1rho and T2 Relaxation Times in Individuals with Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction, Am J Sports Med 2017 Dec;45(14):3262-3271. doi: 10.1177/0363546517723007. Epub 2017 Sep 12.
  38. Kim TY, Schwartz AV, Li X, Xu K, Black DM, Petrenko DM, Stewart L, Rogers SJ, Posselt AM, Carter JT, Shoback DM, Schafer AL, Bone marrow fat changes after gastric bypass surgery are associated with loss of bone mass, J Bone Miner Res 2017 Nov;32(11):2239-2247. doi: 10.1002/jbmr.3212. Epub 2017 Aug 9
  39. Lansdown DA, Pedoia V, Zaid M, Amano K, Souza RB, Li X, Ma CB, Variations in Knee Kinematics Following ACL Injury and After Reconstruction Are Correlated with Bone Shape Differences, Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, 2017 Oct;475(10):2427-2435. doi: 10.1007/s11999-017-5368-8.
  40. Samaan MA, Facchetti L, Pedoia V, Tanaka MS, Link TM, Souza RB, Ma CB, Li X, Cyclops lesions are associated with altered gait patterns and medial knee joint cartilage degeneration at 1 year after ACL-reconstruction. J Orthop Res 2017 Oct;35(10):2275-2281. doi: 10.1002/jor.23530. Epub 2017 Feb 10.
  41. Shimizu T, Choi HJ, Heilmeier U, Tanaka M, Burghardt AJ, Gong J, Chanchek N, Link TM, Graf J, Imboden JB, Li X, Assessment of 3-month changes in bone microstructure under anti-TNFa therapy in patients with rheumatoid arthritis using high-resooution peripheral quantitative computed tomography (HR-pQCT, Arthritis Res Ther. 2017 Oct 4;19(1):222. doi: 10.1186/s13075-017-1430-x.
  42. Li X, Shet K, Xu K, Rodriguez JP, Pino AM, Kurhanewicz J, Schwartz A, Rosen CJ, Unsaturation level decreased in bone marrow fat of postmenopausal women with low bone density using high resolution magic angle spinning (HRMAS) 1H NMR spectroscopy, Bone, 2017 Aug 18;105:87-92. doi: 10.1016/j.bone.2017.08.014. [Epub ahead of print]
  43. Facchetti L, Schwaiger BJ, Gersing AS, Guimaraes JB, Nardo L, Majumdar S, Ma BC, Link TM, Li X, UCSF-P50_ACL Consortium, Cyclops lesions detected by MRI are frequent findings after ACL surgical reconstruction but do not impact clinical outcome over 2 years, Eur Radiol. 2017 Aug;27(8):3499-3508. doi: 10.1007/s00330-016-4661-3. Epub 2016 Dec 16.
  44. Su F, Pedoia V, Teng HL, Kretzschmar M, Lau BC, McCulloch CE, Link TM, Ma CB, Li X. The association between MR T1rho and T2 of cartilage and patient-reported outcomes after ACL injury and reconstruction. Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2016 Jul; 24(7):1180-9. PMID: 26850823
  45. Tufts LS, Shet K, Liang F, Majumdar S, Li X. Quantification of bone marrow water and lipid composition in anterior cruciate ligament-injured and osteoarthritic knees using three-dimensional magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging. Magn Reson Imaging. 2016 Jun; 34(5):632-7. PMID: 26723848
  46. Ku E, Pedoia V, Tanaka M, Imboden J, Graf J, Link TM, Li X, Evaluating Radiocarpal Cartilage Matrix changes 3-months after anti-TNF treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis using MR T1ρ Imaging, J Magn Reson Imag, 2017 May;45(5):1514-1522. doi: 10.1002/jmri.25448. Epub 2016 Sep 23.
  47. Amano K, Pedoia V, Su F, Souza RB, Li X, Ma CB, Persistent Biomechanical Alterations After ACL Reconstruction Are Associated With Early Cartilage Matrix Changes Detected by Quantitative MR Orthop J Sports Med. 2016 Apr 28;4(4):2325967116644421. doi: 10.1177/2325967116644421.
  48. Link TM, Neumann J, Li X, Prestructural Cartliage Assessment, J Magn Reson Imag, 2017 Apr;45(4):949-965. doi: 10.1002/jmri.25554. Epub 2016 Dec 26.
  49. Sheu Y, Amati F, Schwartz AV, Danielson ME, Lee CG, Bauer DC, Li X, Goodpaster BH, Cauley JA, Vertebral bone marrow fat, bone mineral density and diabetes: The Osteoporotic fractures in Men (MrOS) study. Bone. 2017 Apr;97:299-305. doi: 10.1016/j.bone.2017.02.001. Epub 2017 Feb 4.
  50. Amano K, Li AK, Pedoia V, Koff MF, Krych AJ, Link TM, Potter H, Rodeo S, Li X, Ma CB, Majumdar S, Effects of surgical factors on cartilage can be detected using quantitative magnetic resonance imaging after ACL reconstruction, American Journal of Sports Medicine, 2017 Apr;45(5):1075-1084. doi: 10.1177/0363546516677794. Epub 2017 Jan 27.
  51. Pedoia V, Su F, Amano K, Li Q, McCulloch CB, Souza RB, Link TM, Ma CB, Li X, Analysis of the Articular Cartilage T1ρ And T2Relaxation Times Changes After ACL Reconstruction in Injured and Contralateral Knees and Relationships with Bone Shape, J. Ortho Research (JOR), 2017 Mar;35(3):707-717. doi: 10.1002/jor.23398. Epub 2016 Sep 19.
  52. Yang H, Yu A, Burghardt AJ, Virayavanich W, Link TM, Imboden JB, Li X. Quantitative characterization of metacarpal and radial bone in rheumatoid arthritis using high resolution- peripheral quantitative computed tomography. Int J Rheum Dis. 2017 Mar;20(3):353-362. doi: 10.1111/1756-185X.12558. Epub 2015 Apr 10.
  53. Brandao Guimaraes J, Facchetti L, Schwaiger BJ, Gersing AS, Majumdar S, Ma CB, Li X, Link TM, UCSF-P50-ACL Consortium, Evolution of Intrameniscal Signal Alterations Detected by MRI over 24 months in Patients with Traumatic Anterior Cruciate Ligament Tear, AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2017 Feb;208(2):386-392. doi: 10.2214/AJR.16.16625. Epub 2016 Nov 8.
  54. Franc BL, Goth S, MacKenzie J, Li X, Blecha J, Lam T, Jiva S, Hawkins RA, VanBrocklin H, In Vivo PET Imaging of the Activated Immune Environment in a small animal Model of Inflammatory Arthritis, Molecular Imaging, 16: 1-9, 2017 Jan, DOI: 10.1177/1536012117712638
  55. Pedoia V, Russell C, Randolph A, Li X, Majumdar S, PCA-T1ρ Voxel Based Relaxometry of the Articular Cartilage: a Comparison of Biochemical Patterns in Osteoarthritis and ACL subjects, Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery, 2016 Dec;6(6):623-633. doi: 10.21037/qims.2016.11.03.
  56. Gong J, Pedoia V, Facchetti L, Link TM, Ma CB, Li X, Bone marrow edema-like lesions (BMELs) are associated with higher T1ρ and T2 values of cartilage in anterior cruciate ligament (ACL)-reconstructed knees: a longitudinal study, Quant Imaging Med Surg. 2016 Dec;6(6):661-670. doi: 10.21037/qims.2016.12.11.
  57. Pedoia V, Li X, Su F, Calixto N, Majumdar S. Fully automatic analysis of the knee articular cartilage T1? relaxation time using voxel-based relaxometry. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2016 Apr; 43(4):970-80. PMID: 26443990
  58. Wang A, Pedoia V, Su F, Abramson E, Kretzschmar M, Nardo L, Link TM, McCulloch CE, Jin C, Ma CB, Li X. MR T1rho and T2 of meniscus after acute anterior cruciate ligament injuries. Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2016 Apr; 24(4):631-9. PMID: 26620091
  59. Zhou Y, Pandit P, Pedoia V, Rivoire J, Wang Y, Liang D, Li X, Ying L. Accelerating t1? cartilage imaging using compressed sensing with iterative locally adapted support detection and JSENSE. Magn Reson Med. 2016 Apr; 75(4):1617-29. PMID: 26010735
  60. Pandit P, Rivoire J, King K, Li X. Accelerated T1rho acquisition for knee cartilage quantification using compressed sensing and data-driven parallel imaging: A feasibility study. Magn Reson Med. 2016 Mar; 75(3):1256-61. PMID: 25885368
  61. Calixto NE, Kumar D, Subburaj K, Singh J, Schooler J, Nardo L, Li X, Souza RB, Link TM, Majumdar S. Zonal differences in meniscus MR relaxation times in response to in vivo static loading in knee osteoarthritis. J Orthop Res. 2016 Feb; 34(2):249-61. PMID: 26223430
  62. Liu J, Pedoia V, Heilmeier U, Ku E, Su F, Khanna S, Imboden J, Graf J, Link T, Li X. High-temporospatial-resolution dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) wrist MRI with variable-density pseudo-random circular Cartesian undersampling (CIRCUS) acquisition: evaluation of perfusion in rheumatoid arthritis patients. NMR Biomed. 2016 Jan; 29(1):15-23. PMID: 26608949
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  162. Li X, Lu Y, Pirzkall A, McKnight T, Nelson SJ. Analysis of the spatial characteristics of metabolic abnormalities in newly diagnosed glioma patients. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2002 Sep; 16(3):229-37.
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