The role of MRI Cartigram (T2 mapping) in Evaluation of the Articular Cartilage of the Knee Joint

Abstract

From April 2018 to November 2018, this prospective Study was done to use T2 mapping to visualize the articular cartilage of the knee on 1.5 T MR Scanner using special software to evaluate the efficiency Of T2 mapping to detect cartilage lesions. The material of this study included 44 patients. The study includes all of them come complaining of knee pain and 2 of them had previous minor knee trauma, each patient had a single MRI exanimation including conventional MRI routine protocol and added a single complementary T2 mapping, Firstly, the standard imaging planes of the knee were evaluated with focusing on its articular cartilage at different imaging sequences, and then complementary T2 maps were generated using a special so ' software technique. Thereafter, these standard planes were evaluated together with the complementary T2 maps for the same regions, and articular cartilage was evaluated using a color scale.