Larsson, David; Luisier, Benoît; Kersh, Mariana E.; Dall’Ara, Enrico; Zysset, Philippe; Pandy, Marcus G.; Pahr, Dieter H. (2014). Assessment of Transverse Isotropy in Clinical-Level CT Images of Trabecular Bone Using the Gradient Structure Tensor. Annals of biomedical engineering, 42(5), pp. 950-959. Springer 10.1007/s10439-014-0983-y
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The aim of this study was to develop a GST-based methodology for accurately measuring the degree of transverse isotropy in trabecular bone. Using femoral sub-regions scanned in high-resolution peripheral QCT (HR-pQCT) and clinical-level-resolution QCT, trabecular orientation was evaluated using the mean intercept length (MIL) and the gradient structure tensor (GST) on the HR-pQCT and QCT data, respectively. The influence of local degree of transverse isotropy (DTI) and bone mineral density (BMD) was incorporated into the investigation. In addition, a power based model was derived, rendering a 1:1 relationship between GST and MIL eigenvalues. A specific DTI threshold (DTI thres) was found for each investigated size of region of interest (ROI), above which the estimate of major trabecular direction of the GST deviated no more than 30° from the gold standard MIL in 95% of the remaining ROIs (mean error: 16°). An inverse relationship between ROI size and DTI thres was found for discrete ranges of BMD. A novel methodology has been developed, where transversal isotropic measures of trabecular bone can be obtained from clinical QCT images for a given ROI size, DTI thres and power coefficient. Including DTI may improve future clinical QCT finite-element predictions of bone strength and diagnoses of bone disease.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
04 Faculty of Medicine > Pre-clinic Human Medicine > Institute for Surgical Technology & Biomechanics ISTB [discontinued] |
UniBE Contributor: |
Zysset, Philippe |
Subjects: |
500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology 600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health 600 Technology > 620 Engineering |
ISSN: |
0090-6964 |
Publisher: |
Springer |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Philippe Zysset |
Date Deposited: |
13 Oct 2014 11:07 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 14:35 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1007/s10439-014-0983-y |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.54321 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/54321 |
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