The research was oriented to demonstration of the potential of axial T2 mapping for quantification of untreated early-stage patellar cartilage lesions<\/u> over time and to assess its capability as a potential predictive marker for future progression. This mapping sequence, in combination with the unique characteristics of the patella cartilage (thick cartilage, superficial and parallel position to the body surface) might be well suited for future prospective studies to evaluate the natural course of cartilage defects and their treatment in vivo<\/u> (Fig.1).<\/p>\n
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Fig. 1:<\/strong> <\/em>34-year-old female patient with an ICRS grade 1 cartilage defect. After 3 \u00bd years, the morphological follow-up image showed a progression of the cartilage defect. The corresponding T2 map shows a significant increase (red area of cartilage).<\/em><\/p>\n Fig. 2:<\/strong> <\/em>42-year old male patient with suspected cartilage lesion. After 4 years, morphological cartilage status seems to have improved, as well as T2 values have decreased (green colored cartilage turns to blue).<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Project:<\/strong> APVV-15-0029<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Foreign partner:<\/strong> Univ.-Prof. Dr. Siegfried Trattnig, , High Field MR Center, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Austria.<\/p>\n Signed agreement on scientific cooperation<\/span><\/span> by 31. XII.\u00a0 2020.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Publications 2020:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Investigator: Szomol\u00e1nyi, P. Many factors influence the increase in signal intensity provided by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast media. Purpose: To assess the impact of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[33,37,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-projects","category-mri","category-selected-results"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 03:07:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.um.sav.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.um.sav.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.um.sav.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.um.sav.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.um.sav.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2210"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.um.sav.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2250,"href":"https:\/\/www.um.sav.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions\/2250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.um.sav.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.um.sav.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.um.sav.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.um.sav.sk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020_vybrany-vysledok-Szomolanyi1b.jpg\")
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