Extended Data Fig. 2: MRI scans performed in vivo on a patient shows the gained insight into tissue properties by the UTE sequences compared with standard clinical imaging sequences for tendon. | Nature Biomedical Engineering

Extended Data Fig. 2: MRI scans performed in vivo on a patient shows the gained insight into tissue properties by the UTE sequences compared with standard clinical imaging sequences for tendon.

From: Water and ions binding to extracellular matrix drives stress relaxation, aiding MRI detection of swelling-associated pathology

Extended Data Fig. 2: MRI scans performed in vivo on a patient shows the gained insight into tissue properties by the UTE sequences compared with standard clinical imaging sequences for tendon.

A patient (male, 48 years old) with diagnosed mid-portion Achilles tendinopathy was scanned. MR images obtained from scans with standard clinical a, PD-weighted and b, T1-weighted sequences for the symptomatic Achilles tendon (PATHO - symptomatic AT). c, T1 and \({{\rm{T}}}_{2}^{\ast }\) maps of the Achilles tendon obtained from MRI scans using UTE sequences for both the symptomatic foot of the patient (PATHO - symptomatic AT) and the asymptomatic contralateral foot of the patient (CTRL - asymptomatic AT).

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