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Takao, Shoichiro Department of Radiological Sciences, University of California, Irvine|Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Graduate School of Health Sciences, Tokushima University Tokushima University Educator and Researcher Directory KAKEN Search Researchers
Nguyen, Tan B. Department of Radiological Sciences, University of California, Irvine
Yu, Hon J. Department of Radiological Sciences, University of California, Irvine
Hagiwara, Shigeo Department of Radiological Sciences, University of California, Irvine
Kaneko, Yasuhito Department of Radiological Sciences, University of California, Irvine
Nozaki, Taiki Department of Radiological Sciences, University of California, Irvine
Iwamoto, Seiji Department of Radiology, Tokushima University Hospital KAKEN Search Researchers
Otomo, Maki Department of Radiology, Tokushima University Hospital KAKEN Search Researchers
Schwarzkopf, Ran Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California, Irvine
Yoshioka, Hiroshi Department of Radiological Sciences, University of California, Irvine
Keywords
Magnetic resonance imaging
T1rho
T2 mapping
Knee
Meniscus
Zonal differentiation
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Journal Article
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Background: Prior studies describe histological and immunohistochemical differences in collagen and proteoglycan content in different meniscal zones. The aim of this study is to evaluate horizontal and vertical zonal differentiation of T1rho and T2 relaxation times of the entire meniscus from volunteers without symptom and imaging abnormality.
Methods: Twenty volunteers age between 19 and 38 who have no knee-related clinical symptoms, and no history of prior knee surgeries were enrolled in this study. Two T1rho mapping (b-FFE T1rho and SPGR T1rho) and T2 mapping images were acquired with a 3.0-T MR scanner. Each meniscus was divided manually into superficial and deep zones for horizontal zonal analysis. The anterior and posterior horns of each meniscus were divided manually into white, red-white and red zones for vertical zonal analysis. Zonal differences of average relaxation times among each zone, and both inter- and intra-observer reproducibility were statistically analyzed.
Results: In horizontal zonal analysis, T1rho relaxation times of the superficial zone tended to be higher than those of the deep zone, and this difference was statistically significant in the medial meniscal segments (84.3 ms vs 76.0 ms on b-FFE, p < 0.0001 and 96.5 ms vs 91.7 ms on SPGR, p = 0.004). In vertical zonal analysis, T1rho relaxation times of the white zone tended to be higher than those of the red zone, and this difference was statistically significant in the posterior horn of the medical meniscus (88.4 ms vs 77.1 ms on b-FFE, p < 0.001 and 104.9 ms vs 96.8 ms on SPGR, p =0.001). Likewise, T2 relaxation times of the superficial zone were significantly higher than those of the deep zone (80.4 ms vs 74.4 ms in the medial meniscus, p = 0.011). T2 relaxation times of the white zone were significantly higher than those of the red zone in the medial meniscus posterior horn (96.8 ms vs 84.3 ms, p < 0.001) and lateral meniscus anterior horn (104.6 ms vs 84.2 ms, p < 0.0001). Inter-class and intra-class correlation coefficients were excellent (>0.74) or good (0.60–0.74) in all meniscal segments on both horizontal and vertical zonal analysis, except for inter-class correlation coefficients of the lateral meniscus on SPGR. Compared with SPGR T1rho images, b-FFE T1rho images demonstrated more significant zonal differentiation with higher inter- and intra-observer reproducibility.
Conclusions: There are zonal differences in T1rho and T2 relaxation times of the normal meniscus.
Journal Title
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
ISSN
14712474
NCID
AA12035278
Volume
18
Start Page
202
Published Date
2017
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Copyright © 2017 Takao et al. Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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