Department of Radiology, Charité Campus Mitte, Universitaetsmedizin, Berlin, Germany.
Eur Radiol. 2010 Feb;20(2):458-68. doi: 10.1007/s00330-009-1571-7. Epub 2009 Aug 27.
The aim of our study was to perform trabecular bone structure analysis with images from 64- and 320-slice multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) and to compare these with high-resolution peripheral computed tomography (HR-pQCT).
Twenty human cadaver distal forearm specimens were imaged on a 64- and 320-slice MDCT system at 120 kVp, 200 mA and 135 kVp, 400 mA (in-plane pixel size 234 microm; slice thickness 500 microm). HR-pQCT imaging was performed at an isotropic voxel size of 41 microm. Bone volume fraction (BV/TV), trabecular number (Tb.N), thickness (Tb.Th) and separation (Tb.Sp) were computed.
MDCT-derived BV/TV and Tb.Sp were highly correlated (r = 0.92-0.96, p < 0.0001) with the corresponding HR-pQCT parameters. Tb.Th was the only structure measure that did not yield any significant correlation.
The 64- and 320-slice MDCT systems both perform equally well in depicting trabecular bone architecture. However, because of constrained resolutions accurate derivation of trabecular bone measures is limited to only a subset of microarchitectural parameters.
我们的研究旨在使用 64 层和 320 层多层螺旋 CT(MDCT)的图像进行小梁骨结构分析,并将其与高分辨率外周 CT(HR-pQCT)进行比较。
20 个人体尸检的远侧前臂标本在 120kVp、200mA 和 135kVp、400mA 的 64 层和 320 层 MDCT 系统上进行成像(平面像素大小 234μm;层厚 500μm)。HR-pQCT 成像的各向同性体素大小为 41μm。计算骨体积分数(BV/TV)、小梁数(Tb.N)、厚度(Tb.Th)和分离度(Tb.Sp)。
MDCT 衍生的 BV/TV 和 Tb.Sp 与相应的 HR-pQCT 参数高度相关(r=0.92-0.96,p<0.0001)。Tb.Th 是唯一没有显著相关性的结构测量指标。
64 层和 320 层 MDCT 系统在描绘小梁骨结构方面表现相当。然而,由于分辨率受限,小梁骨测量的准确推导仅限于微观结构参数的一个子集。