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01-12-2020 | Osteoarthrosis | Research Article

Layer-specific analysis of femorotibial cartilage t2 relaxation time based on registration of segmented double echo steady state (dess) to multi-echo-spin-echo (mese) images

Authors: David Fürst, Wolfang Wirth, Akshay Chaudhari, Felix Eckstein

Published in: Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine | Issue 6/2020

Abstract

Objective

To develop and validate a 3D registration approach by which double echo steady state (DESS) MR images with cartilage thickness segmentations are used to extract the cartilage transverse relaxation time (T2) from multi-echo-spin-echo (MESE) MR images, without direct segmentations for MESE.

Materials and methods

Manual DESS segmentations of 89 healthy reference knees (healthy) and 60 knees with early radiographic osteoarthritis (early ROA) from the Osteoarthritis Initiative were registered to corresponding MESE images that had independent direct T2 segmentations. For validation purposes, (a) regression analysis of deep and superficial cartilage T2 was performed and (b) between-group differences between healthy vs. early ROA knees were compared for registered vs. direct MESE analysis.

Results

Moderate to high correlations were observed for the deep (r = 0.80) and the superficial T2 (r = 0.81), with statistically significant between-group differences (ROA vs. healthy) of + 1.4 ms (p = 0.002) vs. + 1.3 ms (p < 0.001) for registered vs. direct T2 segmentation in the deep, and + 1.3 ms (p = 0.002) vs. + 2.3 ms (p < 0.001) in the superficial layer.

Discussion

This registration approach enables extracting cartilage T2 from MESE scans using DESS (cartilage thickness) segmentations, avoiding the need for direct MESE T2 segmentations.

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Title: Layer-specific analysis of femorotibial cartilage t2 relaxation time based on registration of segmented double echo steady state (dess) to multi-echo-spin-echo (mese) images
Authors: David Fürst
Wolfang Wirth
Akshay Chaudhari
Felix Eckstein
Publication date: 01-12-2020
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Keywords: Osteoarthrosis
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Osteoarthrosis
Published in: Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine / Issue 6/2020
Print ISSN: 0968-5243
Electronic ISSN: 1352-8661
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10334-020-00852-6

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