GE 3T Keck Protocol Development

Updates in progress…

UTE Spine Protocol

Purpose

  1. High contrast UTE imaging of the cartilaginous endplate (CEP) and cortical bone

  2. Quantitative UTE imaging of the spine using UTE-T2, UTE-MT, UTE-tricomponent and UTE-multicompartment imaging.

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Protocol Steps

  1. Set up the spine coil. Imaging with feet first and using coil elements 4-6 for all the scans.

  2. The imaging planes of all the sequences are labeled in the names, except for the localizers.

Positioning

  1. Feet first.

  2. Align the top of the anterior superior iliac spine with the central region of coil elements 4 and 5.

  3. Put the pad under the knee

Physiological Gating

Not applicable

Post-Processing Support

Dr. Yajun Ma’s group can provide customized MATLAB code for data processing.

Acknowledgement

Thanks to Dr. Yajun Ma’s group in getting this protocol up and running.