title: [Magnetic resonance tomography of the locomotor system with rapid image sequences].
abstract: Rapid imaging of the musculoskeletal system with gradient-echosequences exhibits important advantages. Scanning time is reduced to 1/50 up to 1/100. Depending on TR, TE and flip-angle T1 or T2*-weighted image contrast can be achieved with comparable information to spin-echo images. Gradient-echo techniques combined with 3D-data acquisition is especially advantageous. Within a few minutes imaging of the whole interesting volume with thin contiguous slices is possible as well as secondary reconstruction of any plane. Applications of 2D- and 3D-gradient-echo-sequences for imaging pathological conditions of the spine, pelvis, upper and lower extremities, with special regard of the knee joint, will be demonstrated.
authors.affiliation: Orthopädische Universitätsklinik, Erlangen.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Glückert
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kladny
mesh_terms: D001847:Bone Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007592:Joint Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D007596:Joints / Q000293:injuries / Q000473:pathology; D007718:Knee Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D009132:Muscles / Q000473:pathology; D009135:Muscular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*
vernacular_title: Magnetresonanztomographie des Bewegungsapparates mit schnellen Bildsequenzen.