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Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson. 2010 Aug 13;207(1):42–52. doi: 10.1016/j.jmr.2010.08.003

Table 3.

Average sodium concentrations and fixed charge densities (FCD) measured on 5 volunteers on the patellar, FT medial and FT lateral cartilage (FT stands for femoro-tibial, each measurement was averaged over 2 slices/volunteer). Results are given as average ± standard deviation.

Concentration (mM)	Patellar		FT Medial		FT Lateral
Concentration (mM)	[Na⁺]	FCD	[Na⁺]	FCD	[Na⁺]	FCD
3D Radial	254 ± 48	−165 ± 31	223 ± 36	−122 ± 19	196 ± 26	−81 ± 10
IR Rectangular pulse	383 ± 37	−324 ± 31	363 ± 52	−301 ± 43	355 ± 69	−291 ± 56
IR WURST pulse	351 ± 50	−286 ± 41	315 ± 22	−243 ± 17	296 ± 32	−220 ± 24