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. 2017 Dec 20;12:45–54. doi: 10.1016/j.jot.2017.11.002

Table 3.

Qualitative scores of SEMAC-VAT TSE for acetabular zone and femoral zone images.

N = 30 Acetabular zone Femoral zone
Coronal T1-weighted 1.6 ± 0.5 1.9 ± 0.3∗
Coronal T2-weighted TIRM 1.5 ± 0.5 1.9 ± 0.3∗∗

SEMAC-VAT TSE = slice-encoding metal artifact correction and view-angle tilting turbo-spin-echo; TIRM = turbo inversion recovery magnitude.

0: severe metal-induced artifacts with no delineation of prosthesis; 1: blurring in periprosthetic structures; 2: clear delineation of prosthesis with good imaging of periprosthetic structures. *p = 0.015, **p = 0.002.