Table 1.

Characteristics, Strengths, and Drawbacks of MR Imaging Techniques for Morphologic Assessment of Knee Cartilage

Note.—bSSFP = balanced steady state free precession, DEFT = driven equilibrium Fourier transform, DESS = dual-echo steady state, SNR = signal-to-noise ratio, SPACE = sampling perfection with application-optimized contrast using different flip-angle evolutions, SPGR = spoiled gradient-recalled echo, TR = repetition time, 2D = two-dimensional, VIPR = vastly undersampled isotropic projection reconstruction.