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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson Imaging. 2017 Feb 2;46(1):24–39. doi: 10.1002/jmri.25577

Figure 3.

Figure 3

The effects of implant material composition on susceptibility effect. A volunteer with a ceramic-on-polyethylene bearing total hip arthroplasty. The fast-spin-echo (FSE) and FSE inversion recovery (IR) images have higher susceptibility artifact present as compared to the MAVRIC SL and MAVRIC SL IR sequences, specifically at the dome of the acetabular component and along the stem of the femoral component (arrows). Utilizing a gradient recalled echo (GRE) acquisition, even with ceramic-on-polyethylene bearing surfaces leads to generation of non-diagnostic images.