Eveliina Lammentausta1,2, Samo Lasic3,
Daniel Topgaard3, Olle Sderman3, Leif E. Dahlberg2
1Department of Diagnostic
Radiology, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland; 2Joint &
Soft Tissue Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malm,
Sweden; 3Department of Physical Chemistry, Lund University, Lund,
Sweden
The aim of the current study was to investigate the depth-wise variation of relaxivity in human femoral head articular cartilage using anionic and nonionic contrast agent. The relaxivities were nearly identical, with mean value of 3.8 1/mM/s for both contrast agents, showing similar values through the entire cartilage depth.