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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) offers unique opportunities for direct visualization and quantification of cartilage morphology. MRI enables three-dimensional (3D) acquisitions with contiguous slices, an essential feature for 3D quantification, resulting in improved accuracy and precision of morphological metrics. MRI has unique tomographic capabilities, excellent soft tissue contrast, high signal to noise ratio (SNR), and high-spatial resolution making it the imaging modality of choice to quantify cartilage morphology in vivo. However, the anatomic location of articular cartilage, small size, special geometry, and short transverse relaxation time (T 2) represent also a challenge for MRI.

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Carballido-Gamio, J., Link, T.M. (2011). Cartilage Segmentation. In: Link, T. (eds) Cartilage Imaging. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8438-8_10

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