Ultra-short echo-time (UTE) imaging of the knee with curved surface reconstruction-based extraction of the patellar tendon
- Due to very short T2 relaxation times, imaging of tendons is typically performed using ultra-short echo-time (UTE) acquisition techniques. In this work, we combined an echo-train shifted multi-echo 3D UTE imaging sequence with a 3D curved surface reconstruction to virtually extract the patellar tendon from an acquired 3D UTE dataset. Based on the analysis of the acquired multi-echo data, a T2* relaxation time parameter map was calculated and interpolated to the curved surface of the patellar tendon.
Author: | Martin Krämer, Marta Maggioni, Christoph von Tycowicz, Nick Brisson, Stefan ZachowORCiD, Georg N Duda, Jürgen Reichenbach |
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Document Type: | In Proceedings |
Parent Title (English): | ISMRM (International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine), 26th Annual Meeting 2018, Paris, France |
Year of first publication: | 2018 |