Fig. 7
Conventional MRI ankle joint and T2 mapping evaluation of a 35-year-old female, presenting with ankle pain and minimal swelling of one-week duration. Sagittal T2WI (a) showing no signs of cartilage degeneration nor detectable narrowing of the joint space. T2 mapping color-coded (b) with post-processing images (c) showing color changes (blue color) with high T2 values (more than 60 ms) at the superficial cartilage layer of ventral and central zones of tibial side