
May 03, 2005
High-resolution knee images such as these are performed to detect injuries of the meniscus or cartilage. “Fat Saturation“ (refers to the suppression of the signal from fat tissue) is used to display inflammation as well as to clearly accentuate water deposits in tissue (in the case of inflammation) or in bones (in the case of breaks). A targeted suppression of the fat signal or targeted excitation of the water signal requires high magnetic field homogeneity, which means that this method benefits greatly from a high field device working at 1.5 Tesla. In this area, the Magnetom Espree represents a significant improvement over previous open devices that operated between a maximum of 0.6 and one Tesla.
Reference Number: somed200503-02