{
  "abstract": "In sports medicine, one of the diagnostic challenges in daily practice is to distinguish between subtle osseous injuries and non-specific bone oedema. 1 This is especially true for the diagnostic and management of bone stress injuries, representing 1.5–5.7 injuries per 100 000 athlete exposures in sports, and 5%–10% of new recruits’ problems in the initial 2–3 months of basic training.2 While MRI is the gold standard for soft tissue and bone marrow evaluation, it often lacks the spatial resolution needed to visualise fine cortical disruptions or subtle fracture lines. Such a spatial resolution allows for a precise and complete diagnosis,3 which would be useful, for example, to grade bone stress injuries and, in turn, optimise their management.2 A new generation of MRI sequences, producing so-called CT-like images, is rapidly emerging as a powerful adjunct to conventional imaging.4 Therefore, we aim through this editorial to present the clinical relevance of CT-like MRI sequences and encourage their use in sports medicine.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Radiology, University Hospital of Saint-Etienne, Saint Etienne, France",
        "Université Jean Monnet, Mines Saint-Etienne, INSERM, Saint-Etienne, France"
      ],
      "name": "Sylvain Grange"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Radiology, The University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada"
      ],
      "name": "Bruce B Forster"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Radiology, University Hospital of Saint-Etienne, Saint Etienne, France"
      ],
      "name": "Sylvain Bertholon"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Clinical and Exercise Physiology, Sports Medicine Unit, University Hospital of Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France",
        "Interuniversity Laboratory of Human Movement Biology (EA 7424), Université Jean Monnet, Lyon 1, Université Savoie Mont-Blanc, Saint-Etienne, France"
      ],
      "name": "Pascal Edouard"
    }
  ],
  "title": "CT-like MRI in sports medicine: time to recognise its diagnostic value",
  "uid": "c212d4ef-d392-5846-98e2-308a3ebbcd7b"
}