T1rho imaging is a promising non-invasive diagnostic tool for early detection of articular cartilage degeneration. A mono-exponential model is normally used to describe the T1rho relaxation process. However, mono-exponentials may not adequately to describe NMR relaxation in complex, heterogeneous, and anisotropic materials, such as articular cartilage. Fractional-order models have been used successfully to describe complex relaxation phenomena in the laboratory frame in cartilage matrix components. In this paper, we develop a time-fractional order (T-FACT) model for T1rho fitting in human articular cartilage. Representative results demonstrate that the proposed method is able to fit the experimental data with smaller root mean squared error than the one from conventional mono-exponential relaxation model in human articular cartilage.
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