@article{16f7cdf61787424c91603e99d950b5ae,
title = "The role of advanced MRI in the development of treat-to-target therapeutic strategies, patient stratification and phenotyping in rheumatoid arthritis",
abstract = "In this commentary, we discuss the potential of advanced imaging, particularly Dynamic Contrast Enhanced (DCE) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for the objective assessment of the inflammatory process in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We emphasise the potential of DCE-MRI in advancing the field and exploring new areas of research and development in RA. We hypothesize that different grades of bone marrow edema (BME) and synovitis in RA can be examined and monitored in a more sensitive manner with DCE-MRI. Future treatments for RA may benefit from the application of enhanced imaging of BMEs and synovitis. DCE-MRI may also facilitate enhanced stratification and phenotyping of patients enrolled in clinical trials.",
keywords = "Bone marrow edema (BME), Dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE), Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), Rheumatoid arthritis, Synovitis",
author = "Ali Mobasheri and Mark Hinton and Faiq Shaikh and Olga Kubassova",
note = "Funding Information: The research underpinning the work presented has received funding from a number of sources including: The European Commission Framework 7 programme (EU FP7; HEALTH.2012.2.4.5–2, project number 305815; Novel Diagnostics and Biomarkers for Early Identification of Chronic Inflammatory Joint Diseases). The Innovative Medicines Initiative Joint Undertaking under grant agreement No. 115770, resources of which are composed of financial Funding Information: contribution from the European Union{\textquoteright}s Seventh Framework programme (FP7/2007–2013) and EFPIA companies{\textquoteright} in-kind contribution. Details of the D-BOARD FP7 Consortium are available at: http://www.d-board.eu. Details of the APPROACH IMI Consortium are available at: https://www.approachpro ject.eu. A.M. wishes to acknowledge funding from the European Commission through a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship for Career Development grant (project number 625746; acronym: CHONDRION; FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF). A.M. also wishes to acknowledge financial support from the European Structural and Social Funds through the Research Council of Lithuania (Lietuvos Mokslo Taryba) according to the activity {\textquoteleft}Improvement of researchers{\textquoteright} qualification by implementing world-class R\&D projects{\textquoteright} of Measure No. 09.3.3-LMT-K-712 (grant application code: 09.3.3-LMT-K-712-01-0157, agreement No. DOTSUT-215) and the new funding programme: Attracting Foreign Researchers for Research Implementation (2018–2022). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 The Author(s). Copyright: Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "2020",
month = may,
day = "28",
doi = "10.1186/s41927-020-00131-w",
language = "English",
volume = "4",
pages = "1--3",
journal = "BMC Rheumatology",
publisher = "BioMed Central Ltd.",
number = "1",
}