To study the local distribution of hip cartilage T
The 3 Tesla MRI studies of the hip were obtained for 37 healthy controls and 16 subjects with radiographic hip OA. The imaging protocol included a three-dimensional (3D) SPGR sequence and a combined 3D T
Results for the two methods were consistent in the acetabular (R = 0.79; coefficients of variation [CV] = 2.9%) and femoral cartilage (R = 0.90; CV = 2.6%). VBR revealed local patterns of T
1 J. MAGN. RESON. IMAGING 2017;45:1523-1533.
VBR is an accurate and robust method for quantitative MRI analysis in hip cartilage. VBR showed the capability to detect local variations in T