Carole Burnett1, Jill Halstead-Rastrick2,
Heidi Siddle, Robert Evans, Anthony Redmond3, Richard Hodgson3
1LMBRU, Chapel Allerton Hospital,
Leeds, United Kingdom; 2Leeds University, United Kingdom; 3University
of Leeds
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patients with arthritis and foot pain were imaged using T2 fat-saturated and
SPGR sequences with and without Magnetisation transfer (MT).
Regions-of-interest were placed on areas of normal and oedematous bone marrow
on the T2 fat-saturated images and transferred to the MT images. MT ratios
and the difference between images with and without MT were calculated. Contrast between oedematous and non
oedematous bone was calculated. MT ratios and MT differences were
significantly higher in oedematous bone. Contrast between oedematous and non
oedematous bone was higher with