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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Magn Reson Med. 2012 Oct 3;69(6):10.1002/mrm.24392. doi: 10.1002/mrm.24392

Fig. 3.

Fig. 3

Images of a subject across the 11 echo times (TEs), displayed at the same window/level. Signal intensity in the deep layer of cartilages decreased faster with TE increasing than in the superficial layers, due to faster T2* relaxation. SNR on the patellar cartilage is 87, 92, 81, 71, 66, 59, 47, 43, 29, 23, and 16 for TE=0.6-40ms, respectively. (3T, FOV=140mm, matrix=256, thickness=2mm, TR=80ms, θ=30°)