Age-Dependent Changes in Knee Cartilage T

Magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) techniques have been recently described for simultaneous multiparameter cartilage mapping of the knee although investigation of their ability to detect early cartilage degeneration remains limited.To investigate age-dependent changes in knee cartilage TProspective.The study group consisted of 24 healthy asymptomatic human volunteers (15 males with mean age 34.9 ± 14.4 years and 9 females with mean age 44.5 ± 13.1 years).A 3.0 T gradient-echo-based 3D-MRF sequence was used to simultaneously create proton density-weighted images and TMean global cartilage and regional cartilage (lateral femur, lateral tibia, medial femur, medial tibia, and patella) TKruskal-Wallis tests were used to compared cartilage THigher age groups showed higher global and regional cartilage TCartilage T