1. Racial differences in biochemical knee cartilage composition between African-American and Caucasian-American women with 3 T MR-based T2 relaxation time measurements – data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative 
A. Yu, U. Heilmeier, M. Kretzschmar, G.B. Joseph, F. Liu, H. Liebl, C.E. McCulloch, M.C. Nevitt, N.E. Lane, T.M. Link 
Osteoarthritis and Cartilage 
Volume 23, Issue 9, Pages (September 2015)
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2. Fig. 1
Schematic illustration showing selection of subjects. 100 African-American women and 100 Caucasian-American women fulfilled the inclusion and exclusion criteria. *Subjects were matched by cohort, KL score, site, baseline age and by BMI strata, and randomly selected from the eligible knees in each stratum. Thirty-eight African-Americans failed to match.
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3. Fig. 2
Representative example of laminar regions of interest shown for the medial femoral cartilage. The green region corresponds to the superficial layer, while the red region corresponds to the deep cartilage layer.
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4. Fig. 3
Representative color-coded sagittal T2 maps showing the segmented medial femur of an African-American subject (A) and a matched Caucasian-American subject (B). Cartilage of the African-American subject (A) shows lower T2 values.
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