Abstract #1181
            Practical Requirements for Bi-exponential T2* fitting in Achilles tendon Measured by Variable Echo Time Sequence
                      Vladimir Juras                     1,2                    , Vladimir Mlynarik                     1                    , 						Pavol Szomolanyi                     1,2                    , Marek Chmelik                     1                    , 						and Siegfried Trattnig                     1          
            
            1
           
           High Field MR Centre, Department of 
						Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy, Medical 
						University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria,
           
            2
           
           Department 
						of Measurement Science, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 
						Bratislava, Slovakia
          
            
          The results of this study provide a guide how to perform 
						the bi-exponential T2* fitting in Achilles tendon. 
						Besides the usual conditions used in bi-exponential 
						fitting (such as SNR and R2 threshold), other conditions 
						such as limits for the ratio of T2*s and T2*l obtained 
						by fitting should also be considered for calculating 
						reasonable T2* values. The results of this study can be 
						extended also to other tissues (menisci, ligaments, 
						nerves) and is method independent (works with radial 2D 
						and 3D-UTE, AWSOS, SPRITE).
         
				
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