Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2017 Jun 29;10:1511–1514. doi: 10.2147/JPR.S133572

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

© 2017 Chen et al. This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited

The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed.

PMC Copyright notice

MRI of SIJ: (A) axial STIR sequence (TR 2500, TE 35) shows the hyperintense signal of left SIJ (arrow); (B) axial T1-weighted sequence (TR 450, TE 21) shows the hypointense signal of left SIJ; (C) DWI (TR 2000, TE 70) shows the hyperintense signal of left SIJ with edge blurring.

Abbreviations: DWI, diffusion-weighted imaging; MRI, magnetic resonance imaging; SIJ, sacroiliac joint; STIR, short tau inversion recovery; TR, repetition time; TE, echo time.