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The performance of MR imaging regarding the evaluation of bone structures varies from the poorly detailed information regarding the cortical bone to its unique capability of bone marrow assessment. Although some MR sequences (also called “black-bone” MRI) based on a partial flip angle technique or new ultrashort echo (UTE) techniques have been used for providing images of the cortical bone, computer tomography remains the imaging method of choice for cortical bone evaluation in the clinical routine (Fig. 11.1) [1].

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  1. Phoenix Diagnostic Clinic, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    Nicolae V. Bolog MD, PhD, MS

  2. Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

    Gustav Andreisek MD, MBA & Erika J. Ulbrich MD

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Bolog, N.V., Andreisek, G., Ulbrich, E.J. (2015). Bones. In: MRI of the Knee. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08165-6_11

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