Patellar tendon

Determination of patellar ligament and anterior cruciate ligament geometry using MRI

H. P. Wang, Cui, H. K., Yue, W., Yan, R. F., Ren, J. P., Zhai, Z. S., Liang, C. H., Yang, R. M., and Han, D. M., Determination of patellar ligament and anterior cruciate ligament geometry using MRI, vol. 14, pp. 12352-12361, 2015.

Ligament geometry is crucial to surgical treatment success in anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury. This study aimed to optimize the MRI technique to elucidate the geometry of the patellar ligament (PL) and ACL in vivo. A 1.5-T superconducting MRI system with a special surface coil and fast spin echo was used to acquire high-resolution T1-weighted images (H-T1WI) of the ACL. The sagittal plane angle was 10° to 15° towards the inner side of the vertical line of the tangent line axis of the femoral intercondylar fossa.

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