Fig. 2

Example case of a sagittal PD-weighted MR image (TR/TE, 2380.0/24.0) where the area between the severed tendons was cropped. a From successive MR images, the middle image was chosen to represent the center of the tendon with respect to the sagittal cross-section. The middle image shows the severance of the tendon (white arrow) and the tendon gap (outlined arrow) with higher signal intensities than the surrounding muscle and tendons. b The area between the severed tendons was manually cropped and the pixel count of high signal intensity were computed in Python