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Fig. 6 | European Radiology Experimental

Fig. 6

From: Musculoskeletal MRI at 7 T: do we need more or is it more than enough?

Fig. 6

MRI of a 46-year-old patient with chronic Achilles tendinopathy. a Proton-density-weighted two-dimensional turbo spin-echo image depicts centres of each region of interest (arrows). b Corresponding colour-coded three-dimensional gradient-echo sodium image depicts Achilles tendon sodium signal (arrows), which is obviously higher than that in the healthy volunteer. The sodium signal increase was observed in the whole tendon, and not only in regions with clinical findings (middle region in this case). All patients had focal thickening of the Achilles tendon without fluid-like signal intensity increase on proton-density–weighted two-dimensional turbo spin-echo images. Colour scale represents sodium signal intensity values.

Reprinted with permission from: Juras et al., Radiology 2012 (reference [63])

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