Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology offers the most important diagnostic information for musculoskeletal (MSK) disorders, in comparison to other imaging modalities (1). However, human MSK system contains a lot of fat, by which the important tissue signals from the cartilage and the synovial fluid are obstructed. Even with fat suppression techniques, it is still difficult to distinguish tissues having similar proton density (PD), T1, and T2 values. In this abstract, a new contrast enhancing method for the color MR image based on parametric segmentation is introduced, using the modified bSSFP pulse sequence.
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