Reduced metallic artefacts in 3 T knee MRI using fast spin-echo multi-point Dixon compared to fast spin-echo T2-weighted sequences.

•We compared multi-point Dixon MR and FSE T2WI with regard to the size of metallic artefacts when imaging the knee joint.•The mean distances measured by two readers on multi-point Dixon (water only image) sequences were significantly shorter than those in FS T2WI sequences.•The multi-point Dixon technique reduces the amount of metallic artefacts compared to that in FS FSE T2WI sequences.•The metallic artefacts were not significantly different between in-phase images of multi-point Dixon and FSE T2WI.