Surface size, curvature analysis, and assessment of knee joint incongruity with MRI in vivo

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 554-561

  Hohe, Jan ^a   Ateshian, Gerard ^b   Reiser, Maximilian ^c   Englmeier, Karl Hans ^d   Eckstein, Felix ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e Anatomische Anstalt   (Germany)

Author keywords

Curvature analysis; Diarthridial joints; Joint congruence; MR imaging; Osteoarthritis

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

CURVATURE ANALYSIS; GAUSSIAN CURVATURE ANALYSIS; JOINT CONGRUENCES; MR IMAGING; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PRINCIPAL CURVATURE; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SURFACE CURVATURES;

JOINTS (ANATOMY);

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGING; IN VIVO STUDY; KNEE DISEASE; MALE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOARTHRITIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; SURFACE PROPERTY; TECHNIQUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0036190582     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.10097     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Epidemiology of hip and knee osteoarthritis
2. The incidence and natural history of knee, osteoarthritis in the elderly. The Framingham Osteoarthritis study
3. The effects of specific medical conditions on the functional limitations of elders in the Framingham Study
4. The economics of osteoarthritis
5. Structure and function of articular cartilage and meniscus
6. Mechanical determinants of osteoarthrosis
7. Effect of motion and load on articular cartilage in animal models
8. Laxity in healthy and osteoarthritic knees
9. Varus-valgus alignment in the progression of knee OA
10. Biochmical and metabolic abnormalities in articular cartilage from osteoarthritic human hips. II. Correlation of morphology with biochemical and metabolic data
11. The geometry of diarthrodial joints, its physiologic maintenance, and the possible significance of age related changes in geometry to load distribution and the development of osteoarthritis
12. The morphology of the calcification front in articular cartilage. Its significance in joint function
13. Etiology of osteoarthritis of the hip
14. An asymptotic solution for the contact of two biphasic cartilage layers
15. Quantification of articular cartilage in the knee with pulsed saturation transfer subtraction and fat-suppressed MR imaging: Optimization and validation
16. Determination of 3D cartilage thickness data from MR imaging - Computational method and reproducibility in the living
17. Interobserver reproducibility of quantitative cartilage measurements: Comparison between B-spline snakes and manual segmentation
18. Knee cartilage topography, thickness, and contact areas from MRI: In vitro calibration and in vivo measurements
19. In vivo morphometry and functional analysis of human articular cartilage with quantitative magnetic resonance imaging - From image to data, from data to theory
20. Fat suppressed MRI of articular cartilage with a spatial-spectral excitation pulse
21. Optimization and validation of a rapid high resolution T1 w 3D flash water excitation MR sequence for the quantitative assessment of articular cartilage volume and thickness
22. High-resolution, selective water-excitation MR imaging for quantitative assessment of thin cartilage layers: Validation with CT-arthrography and A-mode ultrasound
23. Magnetic resonance imaging-based assessment of cartilage loss in severe osteoarthritis. Accuracy, precision and diagnostic value
24. A B-spline least-squares surface fitting method for articular surfaces of diarthrodial joints
25. Parallel b-spline surface fitting on mesh-connected computers
26. Anatomy of the human patellofemoral joint articular cartilage: Surface curvature analysis
27. Curvature characteristics and congruence of the thumb carpometacarpal joint: Differences between female and male joints
28. Accurate assessment of precision errors: How to measure the reproducibility of bone densitometry techniques
29. Quantitative relationships of normal cartilage volumes of the human knee joint - Assessment by magnetic resonance imaging
30. Gender differences in knee cartilage volume as measured by magnetic resonance imaging
31. Geschlechtsspezifische analyse der knorpelvolumina des kniegelenks - Eine quantitative MRT-basierte studie
32. Sex and site differences in cartilage development: A possible explanation for variations in knee osteoarthritis in later life
33. Gender differences of knee joint cartilage thickness, volume and articular surface areas - Assessment with quantitative 3D MR imaging
34. Stress on the articular surface of the hip joint in healthy adults and persons with idiopathic osteoarthrosis of the hip joint
35. Prearthrosis of the hip in the adult population
36. Chronic stress tolerance levels for human articular cartilage: Two nonuniform contact models applied to the long-term-follow-up of CDH
37. Quantitation of articular surface topography and cartilage thickness in knee joints using stereophotogrammetry
38. The distribution of cartilage thickness within the joints of the lower limb of elderly individuals
39. Incongruent surfaces in the human hip joint