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From: Non-invasive assessment of skeletal muscle fibrosis in mice using nuclear magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasound shear wave elastography

Figure 4

Lower T2 and long-T2* in fibrotic muscle after injury. (a) T2 maps calculated from MSME data revealed shorter T2 in injured skeletal muscles, which correlated negatively with collagen fraction (b). (c) T2* estimation from UTE signal decay with a bi-exponential off-resonance model showed that water long-T2* was also reduced in injured muscles, but it did not correlate with collagen fraction (d). Lines connect injured and control muscles for each animal in (a) and (c). (b, d) Scatter plot with fitted linear regression and 95% confidence interval in grey.

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