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Muscles and Ligaments





- Discussion:
    - T1 images provide contrast between muscles & adjacent tissues;
    - normal Muscle has low-intermediate signal intensity on both T1 & T2
          images where as inflammation and lesions of muscle will have an
          increased signal on T1 & (even higher on) T2 images,
    - its important to note that normal muscles may have an increased signal on
            T2 images, when they are adjacent to neoplasms;



Original Text by Clifford R. Wheeless, III, MD.