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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Apr 22.
Published in final edited form as: Magn Reson Med. 2002 Feb;47(2):284–291. doi: 10.1002/mrm.10054

FIG. 6.

FIG. 6

Sodium concentration maps from three slices from a 3D data set. The barscale is in millimolar sodium. Histograms correspond to the map above it, and contain only the pixels from the cartilage on or near the patella. Left: image displaying cartilage mainly from the femoral chondyle. The mean [Na] was 223 mM, FCD = −135 mM. Center: patellar cartilage, mean [Na] was 240 mM, FCD = −158 mM. Right: patellar cartilage, mean [Na] was 258 mM, FCD −182 mM. The signal intensity of the phantoms is maximized due to the thresholding of the maps.