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Table 1 Imaging parameters for the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sequences

From: Relationship between medial meniscus extrusion and cartilage measurements in the knee by fully automatic three-dimensional MRI analysis

 

SPGR

PDWI 3D FSE/TSE

Repetition time (msec)

20

1000

Echo time (msec)

1st:7

35

 

2nd:13.8

 

Flip angles (deg)

90

35

Acquisition matrix size

256 × 256

256 × 256

Reconstruction matrix size

512 × 512

512 × 512

No. of sections

320

320

Slice thickness (mm)

0.3

0.3

Field of view (mm × mm)

150 × 150

150 × 150

WFS/BW (pix/ Hz)

2.002/217.0

0.836/519.4

Total examination time

7 min 34 s

7 min 30 s

  1. SPGR Fat-suppressed spoiled gradient echo, PDWI 3D FSE/TSE Proton density weighted imaging 3D fast spin echo/ turbo spin echo, WFT/BW Actual Water Fat Shift/ Bandwidth