Quantitative Sodium MRI of the Human Patellar Tendon
Rika Möller, Julia Jurisic, Lukas R. Drewes, Alexandra Ljimani, Hans‐Jörg Wittsack, Armin M. Nagel, Gerald Antoch, Lena M. Wilms, Anja Müller‐Lutz, Benedikt Kamp · 2026
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Description
Rika Möller and colleagues put a small knee tendon under a sodium-sensitive MRI scan. Sodium levels in tendon mirror its sugar-protein content, which rises early in tendinopathy before structure visibly changes, offering a possible early warning. Achilles tendons had been measured this way, but the thinner patellar tendon invites measurement blur. The team scanned seven patients with patellar tendinopathy and twenty healthy controls on a standard clinical scanner, applying a custom correction for that blur.
Sodium concentration in patients ran far above controls, and a comparison measure of structural alteration was also roughly doubled; both gaps were statistically solid. The team first measured the tendon's sodium relaxation times to anchor the numbers. Because the method runs on ordinary hospital equipment, the authors argue it could flag tendon trouble while it is still chemical, not yet structural.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Rika Möller, Julia Jurisic, Lukas R. Drewes, Alexandra Ljimani, Hans‐Jörg Wittsack, Armin M. Nagel, Gerald Antoch, Lena M. Wilms, Anja Müller‐Lutz, Benedikt Kamp |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 30 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |