To increase the contrast between the bone and the cartilage, fat saturation techniques are additionally applied to the conventional imaging sequences. However, the fat saturation techniques eliminate most of the bone information. Thus, using the modified bSSFP (balanced steady-state free precession) pulse sequence called a hybrid bSSFP pulse sequence, the proposed method offers the multi-contrast knee images with very short imaging time (< 10 sec).
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