Abstract #4503

Effects of the acquisition window length on articular cartilage sodium MR image quality

Alireza Akbari^1,2 and Michael Noseworthy^1,2,3

¹School of Biomedical Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ²Imaging Research Centre, St Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ³Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

We assessed articular cartilage sodium MR image SNR and blurring as a function of acquisition window length. Increasing the acquisition window dramatically improved the SNR with minimal reduction in image quality as shown by minimal blurring.

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