Fig. 5
Conventional MRI ankle joint and T2 mapping of a 50-year-old male, presenting with ankle pain of three months duration. Coronal T1WI (a) showing signs of mild cartilage degeneration in the form of non-uniform thinning of the articular cartilage covering the medial aspect of tibia and talus with narrowing of the joint space (white arrow). T2 mapping color-coded (b) with post-processing images (c) show color changes (blue color) with high T2 values (more than 60 ms) at the superficial and deep cartilage layers of ventral and dorsal zones of tibial and talar sides