January 2023 - Jan Fritz, MD, a note from the Guest Editor
This special issue of Investigative Radiology comprises a collection of expert summaries and reviews on the most impactful innovations and cutting-edge topics in musculoskeletal radiology. The reviewed critical new developments in musculoskeletal radiology include MRI- and CT-based radiomics and deep learning methods for detecting and characterizing musculoskeletal injuries and diseases, high-resolution MR neurography techniques for evaluating the brachial plexus, deep learning approaches for ultra-fast musculoskeletal MRI, techniques for MRI-based synthetic CT, quantitative MRI techniques applied to evaluate articular cartilage, modern low-field MRI for musculoskeletal applications, the most gainful musculoskeletal applications of 7.0 T musculoskeletal MRI, musculoskeletal application of dual-energy CT, cone beam CT, and kinematic CT, as well as technical possibilities and clinical applications of synthetic contrast generation in musculoskeletal MRI.