• Eur J Radiol · Apr 2016

    Comparative Study

    The compositional difference between ankle and knee cartilage demonstrated by T2 mapping at 7 Tesla MR.

    • Vladimir Juras, Štefan Zbýň, Vladimir Mlynarik, Pavol Szomolanyi, Benedikt Hager, Peter Baer, Ivan Frollo, and Siegfried Trattnig.
    • High Field MR Centre, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; Department of Imaging Methods, Institute of Measurement Science, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia. Electronic address: vladimir.juras@meduniwien.ac.at.
    • Eur J Radiol. 2016 Apr 1; 85 (4): 771-7.

    ObjectivesThe aim was to systematically compare T2 relaxation times of the knee and ankle cartilage within subjects at 7T.MethodsTen healthy volunteers were examined by 7 Tesla MR using a three-dimensional triple-echo steady state sequence (3D-TESS). The differences between seven cartilage compartments (patella, femur, proximal tibia, and distal tibia and talus in both medial and lateral facet) were analyzed by ANOVA.ResultsThe results showed statistically significantly higher T2 (mean ± standard deviation, in milliseconds) values in patellar (25.8 ± 1.2) and femoral (24.9 ± 1.3) cartilage compared to the tibial (19.2 ± 1) and talar (18.1 ± 0.6 ms) cartilage. The cartilages of the medial and lateral facet in the ankle joint were not significantly different (p>0.05).ConclusionsThis is the first study to systematically compare within-subject T2 values in the knee and ankle non-invasively, in vivo. Our results are in agreement with the previous findings demonstrating different biochemical and biomechanical properties between the knee and ankle cartilage.Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

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