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Grant support This study was supported by an award (Ref: WHMSB-AU119) from the Translational Medicine Research Collaboration – a consortium made up of the Universities of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow, the four associated NHS Health Boards (Grampian, Tayside, Lothian and Greater Glasgow & Clyde), Scottish Enterprise and Wyeth. The funder played no part in the design, execution, analysis or publication of this paper. Acknowledgements We are grateful to Mrs D. Younie for kindly arranging the imaging sessions and Mrs B.MacLennan (research radiographer) for acquiring the MR images. We also thank Dr S. Galea-Soler, Dr G. Waiter, Dr.Zhiqing Wu, and Dr K. Yoshida for Kellgren-Lawrence grading, help and advice, and Mr G. Buchan for his expertise making the phantoms. |