Abstract #4480

MR properties of cadaveric Achilles tendon enthesis with ultrashort echo time (UTE) sequences and correlate with biomechanics

Bimin Chen^1,2, Erik Dorthe³, Michael Carl⁴, Hongda Shao¹, Yajun Ma¹, Darryl D'Dlima³, Graeme M Bydder¹, and Jiang Du¹

¹Radiology Department, UCSD, San Diego, CA, United States, ²Radiology Department, The first affiliated hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, People's Republic of, ³The Scripps Research Institute, San Diego, CA, United States, ⁴GE Healthcare, san diego, CA, United States

Entheses are sites where tendons, ligaments, and joint capsules attach to bone. They may be fibrous or fibrocartilaginous. Entheses are adapted at both the macroscopic and the microscopic level to distribute stress over a wide area or volume. Entheses are very commonly involved in many diseases and the primary target of disease in the seronegative spondyloarthropathies .we aim to study the MR properties of cadaveric Achilles tendon enthesis using ultrashort echo time (UTE) sequences and correlate them with biomechanics.

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