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The study and image acquisition was funded by the Osteoarthritis Initiative, a public–private partnership comprising five contracts: N01-AR-2-2258; N01-AR-2-2259; N01-AR-2-2260; N01-AR-2-2261; N01-AR-2-2262. Image analysis was funded by the Paracelsus Medical University Research Fund (PMU FFF R-12702/036/BLO).
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K. Bloecker: none; W. Wirth: part-time employee and co-owner of Chondrometrics GmbH, Ainring, Germany, a company providing an image analysis service to other researchers and the pharmaceutical industry; D.J. Hunter: none; A. Guermazi is President and co-owner of the Boston Core Imaging Lab (BICL), a company providing MRI reading services to academic researchers and to industry, and he provides consulting services to Genzyme; K. Kwoh has provided consulting services for Novartis and has received research support from Astra-Zeneca; H. Resch: none; F. Eckstein: part-time employee and co-owner of Chondrometrics GmbH, Ainring, Germany, a company providing an image analysis service to other researchers and the pharmaceutical industry, and he provides consulting services for Merck Serono and Abbvie.
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Bloecker, K., Guermazi, A., Wirth, W. et al. Correlation of semiquantitative vs quantitative MRI meniscus measures in osteoarthritic knees: results from the Osteoarthritis Initiative. Skeletal Radiol 43, 227–232 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00256-013-1769-2
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