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Published in final edited form as: J Orthop Res. 2017 Aug 11;36(1):330–341. doi: 10.1002/jor.23649

Table 1.

Cartilage sensitive MRI hip Protocol

MRI Sequence	Sequence Parameters
3D SPGR (MERGE)	TR = 30.4 ms, 5 echo times (effective TE = 12.4 ms), flip angle = 15°, matrix = 512 × 512, 28 slices, slice thickness = 4 mm, field of view (FOV) = 14 cm, bandwidth (BW) = 62.5 kHz, NEX = 1, acquisition time 11:46 minutes
Combined T_1ρ and T₂ (MAPPS)	FOV = 14 cm, matrix size = 256 × 128, VPS = 64, BW = 62.5 kHz, time of recovery = 1.2 sec, slice thickness = 4 mm, no gap, in-plane resolution = 0.5 mm, and acquisition time = 13:47 minutes
	For T_1ρ: TSL = 0/15/35/45 ms, FSL 300 Hz
	For T₂: TE = 0/10.4/20.8/41.7 ms