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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson Imaging. 2013 Sep 23;39(6):1384–1393. doi: 10.1002/jmri.24305

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Figure 4

Clinical fast spin-echo imaging of the hip joint at 7 T. Representative coronal images in three subjects were imaged with fat suppression (a, b) and without fat suppression (c). In (a) and (c), the labra (arrowheads) are normal and a tiny perilabral sulcus (double-lined arrow), a normal anatomic variant, is visible. In (b), the labrum is intact, but no perilabral sulcus is present. In the 57 year old female in (d), the labrum is irregular in morphology, and in the 70 year old female in (e), the labrum is hyperintense in signal with ill-defined margins. These findings in (d) and (e) are both consistent with degenerative tearing of the labrum. Additionally, in (e), there is evidence for a delaminating cartilage fissure (vertical arrow) involving acetabular cartilage. The hip joint capsule (diagonal line), normal articular cartilage (vertical arrows in (a) and (b)), trace synovial fluid subjacent to the joint capsule (open arrowhead), and gluteal tendons (open arrow) are also seen on the images.