The purpose of lecture is to review and apply current and emerging techniques in MR imaging of the knee joint.
To review and apply current and emerging techniques in MR imaging of the knee joint.
1. To understand the current updates on MR imaging of the knee joint, especially regarding rapid acquisition techniques, including parallel imaging, compressed sensing, simultaneous multislice, and neural network reconstruction techniques.
2. To understand and apply recent techniques of metal artifact reduction in postoperative MR imaging of the knee joint, including Dixon, view angle tilting, SEMAC, and MAVRIC.
3. To review advanced cartilage imaging techniques, including qualitative techniques, such as SPACE, SPGR, DESS, and quantitative techniques, such as T2 mapping, dGEMRIC, Na imaging, T1 rho mapping, and diffusion-weighted imaging.
1. Recent techniques in MR imaging of the knee will allow clinicians to do rapid scanning at a comparable resolution within reasonable amount of time.
2. Recent techniques in metal artifact reduction will allow MR imaging of postoperative knee joint with reduction of artifacts and better evaluation of postoperative complications.
3. Recent techniques in cartilage imaging will allow accurate evaluation of the cartilage status of knee joint before morphologic changes appear.