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Table 1 Example for an MR imaging protocol of the knee

From: Reporting knee meniscal tears: technical aspects, typical pitfalls and how to avoid them

Orientation

Sequence type

Repetition time / echo time [ms]

Fat suppressed

Resolution (mm)

Acquisition time [ms]

sagittal

proton-densitiy turbo spin echo

3000 / 29

No

0.2. × 0.2 × 2.8

3:35

sagittal

T2-weighted turbo spin echo

4600 / 83

Yes

0.2. × 0.2 × 2.8

7:42

coronal

proton-densitiy turbo spin echo

2770 / 25

No

0.2. × 0.2 × 3.0

5:26

transverse

proton-densitiy turbo spin echo

6230 / 41

Yes

0.2. × 0.2 × 2.5

4:29

  1. * Example represents the current standard MR imaging protocol for a 3 T MR unit (Skyra Siemens Healthcare, Erlangen, Germany) at the author’s institution using a dedicated 18ch-transmit-receive knee coil