Fig. 2
From: Musculoskeletal MRI at 7 T: do we need more or is it more than enough?
a Cartilage T2 map acquired with a Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill (CPMG) multi-echo spin-echo (MESE) sequence, pseudo-colour-coded and overlaid on a morphological T2-weighted image from a 32-year-old healthy volunteer (echo time 11.9 ms). b Cartilage T2 map acquired with a three-dimensional triple echo steady state, pseudo-colour-coded and overlaid on the second acquired image (F0, the lowest order steady state free precession—free induction decay mode acquired in the repetition time). The typical zonal stratification of cartilage is observable with both techniques. However, the CPMG sequence provides apparently higher dynamic contrast of T2 values with better depiction of cartilaginous layers.
Reprinted with permission from: Juras et al., Eur Radiol 2016 (reference [21])