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Measurement and visualisation of focal cartilage thickness change by MRI in a study of knee osteoarthritis using a novel image analysis tool
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Williams, T. G., Holmes, A. P., Bowes, M., Vincent, G., Hutchinson, Charles E., Waterton, J. C., Maciewicz, R. A. and Taylor, C. J. (2010) Measurement and visualisation of focal cartilage thickness change by MRI in a study of knee osteoarthritis using a novel image analysis tool. The British Journal of Radiology, 83 (995). pp. 940-948. doi:10.1259/bjr/68875123 ISSN 0007-1285.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjr/68875123
Abstract
We describe the application of a novel analysis method that provides detailed maps of changes in cartilage thickness measured from MRI scans for individuals and cohorts of patients together with regional measures.
A cohort of osteoarthritis patients was imaged using a 1.0 T MR scanner over a 36-month period. Hyaline cartilage was manually segmented from a three-dimensional (3D) spoiled gradient-echo sequence with fat suppression. Representative outlines of the bone surfaces of the distal femur and proximal tibia were automatically generated from T2 weighted images using statistical models of the shape and appearance of the bones. Cartilage thickness was measured from a dense set of points representing the bony surface. The models of the bones provided a common frame of reference, relative to which change maps were generated and aggregated across the cohort and anatomically corresponding subregions of the joint to be identified.
In the reproducibility arm involving six patients, the thickness of cartilage had coefficients of variation of 2.66% within the tibiofemoral joint and 2.94% within the medial femoral condyle region. In the 9 patients (6 female, 3 male) who completed the 36-month study, the most striking observation was that lack of change in global measures of cartilage thickness concealed substantial focal changes. Specifically, the cartilage thickness within the tibiofemoral joint decreased by 0.85% per annum (95% CI −2.13% to 0.45%) with the medial femoral condyle as the region with the most significant change, decreasing by 2.43% per annum (uncorrected 95% CI −4.31% to 0.51%).
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Population, Evidence & Technologies (PET) Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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Journal or Publication Title: | The British Journal of Radiology | ||||
Publisher: | British Institute of Radiology | ||||
ISSN: | 0007-1285 | ||||
Official Date: | 2010 | ||||
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Volume: | 83 | ||||
Number: | 995 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 940-948 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1259/bjr/68875123 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published |
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