PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Østergaard, Mikkel AU - Peterfy, Charles AU - Conaghan, Philip AU - McQueen, Fiona AU - Bird, Paul AU - Ejbjerg, Bo AU - Shnier, Ron AU - O'Connor, Philip AU - Klarlund, Mette AU - Emery, Paul AU - Genant, Harry AU - Lassere, Marissa AU - Edmonds, John TI - OMERACT Rheumatoid Arthritis Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies. Core set of MRI acquisitions, joint pathology definitions, and the OMERACT RA-MRI scoring system. DP - 2003 Jun 01 TA - The Journal of Rheumatology PG - 1385--1386 VI - 30 IP - 6 4099 - http://www.jrheum.org/content/30/6/1385.short 4100 - http://www.jrheum.org/content/30/6/1385.full SO - J Rheumatol2003 Jun 01; 30 AB - This article describes the 2002 OMERACT rheumatoid arthritis magnetic resonance image scoring system (RAMRIS) for evaluation of inflammatory and destructive changes in RA hands and wrists, which was developed by an international MRI-OMERACT group. MRI definitions of important RA joint pathologies, and a "core set" of basic MRI sequences for use in RA are also suggested.