USE OF MULTIPLE PULSE SEQUENCES FOR 3D DISCRIMINATION OF SUB-STRUCTURES OF THE KNEE

摘要

To image substructures in the knee, two sets of image data are taken, e.g., T1 fat-suppressed and T2 non-fat-suppressed MRI images. The two sets of image data are fused to obtain a fused multispectral image volume. The image volume can be displayed or subjected to automatic segmentation and feature extraction to resolve substructure boundaries that are poorly resolved in one of the original sets of image data.