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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Magn Reson Med. 2011 Jun 23;67(2):428–436. doi: 10.1002/mrm.23026

FIG. 6.

FIG. 6

Sagittal images of in vivo human knee acquired using CODE with different echo times, i.e., TE = 0.5 ms in (a) and (b), TE = 1.0 ms in (c) and (d). Tp,sinc = 0.25 ms, flip angle = 4°. TR = 4 ms, and FOV (= slab width) = 25 cm. The number of projections = 128 k. Scan time = ~8 min. Isotropic resolution = 0.91 mm3. Fat suppression was performed using a spectral-selective suppression pulse after every 32 acquisitions. With both TE values, CODE provides good sensitivity for visualizing connective tissues with a majority of short T2 components, such as cartilage (C) (a, c), anterior and posterior horn medial menisci (MM) (a, c), patellar tendon (a ~ d), and anterior and posterior cruciate ligament (ACL and PCL) (b, d). Despite good suppression of fat signals, signals from fatty tissues increased as TE decreased, which may be due to the increasing contribution of the short T2 components of fatty tissue.