Abstract #1649

Articular Cartilage Grading of the Knee ; Diagnostic Value of Fat Suppressed 3D Volume Isotropic Turbo Spin Echo Acquisition

Daekeon Lim¹, Young Han Lee¹, Sungjun Kim¹, Ho-Taek Song¹, Jin-Suck Suh¹

¹Department of Radiology, Research Institute of Radiological Science, Severance hospital, Seoul, Korea

Fat suppressed 3D volume isotropic turbo spin echo acquisition(VISTA) sequence has comparable diagnostic values in grading the cartilage lesions.In grade 2 lesions, 3D VISTA image has higher diagnostic value than that of 2D sequence.