Trabecular bone imaging using a 3D adiabatic inversion recovery prepared ultrashort TE Cones sequence at 3T.

Ya-Jun MaYanjun ChenLiang LiZhenyu CaiZhao WeiSaeed JerbanHyungseok JangEric Y ChangJiang Du

Published in: Magnetic resonance in medicine (2019)

The 3D IR-UTE-Cones sequence with a short TR/TI combination provides robust suppression of long T2 tissues and allows both selective imaging and quantitative ( T 2 ∗ and proton density) assessment of short T2 water components in trabecular bone in vivo.

Keyphrases

bone mineral density
high resolution
postmenopausal women
body composition
soft tissue
magnetic resonance imaging
computed tomography
fluorescence imaging
electron transfer