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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 May 11.
Published in final edited form as: J Orthop Sports Phys Ther. 2010 Feb;40(2):67–81. doi: 10.2519/jospt.2010.3047

FIGURE 6.

FIGURE 6

Persistent scar tissue, depicted by low-intensity signal (arrow), is evident adjacent to the site of prior injury along the proximal musculotendon junction of the biceps femoris long head in the a) T2-weighted fast spin echo axial and b) recombined in-phase image acquired with 3D-IDEAL-SPGR* coronal views. Such scarring has been observed to persist on a long-term basis (5-23 months post-injury).88 Reproduced with permission of Springer Science+Business Media, © 2008.

*Coronal images were obtained using a 3D T1-weighted spoiled gradient-echo (SPGR) chemical shift based water-fat separation technique known as IDEAL (Iterative Decomposition of water and fat with Echo Asymmetry and Least-squares estimation). Images shown are recombined water+fat (in-phase) images acquired and reconstructed with IDEAL.81