Three-Dimensional UTE Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Osteochondral Junction

骨软骨连接处的三维 UTE 磁共振成像

• 批准号: 10207470
• 负责人: Yajun Ma
• 金额: $ 16.81万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-07-01 至 2023-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10207470
• 关键词: 3-Dimensional; Affect; Age; American; Blood Vessels; Bone Marrow; Bone plates; Cadaver; Cartilage; Clinical; Clinical Treatment; Cone; Degenerative polyarthritis; Diagnosis; Disease; Evaluation; Extracellular Matrix Degradation; Fatty acid glycerol esters; Goals; Histology; Human; Image; Inflammation; Joints; Knee joint; Ligaments; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Marrow; Metalloproteases; Monitor; Morphology; Nerve; Osteoclasts; Pathogenesis; Pathologic; Patients; Performance; Physiologic pulse; Play; Preparation; Protons; Public Health; Radial; Recovery; Reference Standards; Relaxation; Replacement Arthroplasty; Reporting; Resolution; Role; Sampling; Scanning; Scheme; Series; Signal Transduction; Societies; Source; Specimen; Stress; System; Techniques; Tendon structure; Time; Tissues; Up-Regulation; Weight; Weight-Bearing state; Work; arthropathies; articular cartilage; bone; calcification; clinical Diagnosis; contrast imaging; cost; density; healthy volunteer; improved; in vivo; in vivo imaging; interest; knee replacement arthroplasty; osteochondral tissue; quantitative imaging; radio frequency; sex; subchondral bone; substantia spongiosa

Abstract Osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the most prevalent diseases in the US, affecting over 50 million Americans with an annual cost of more than $60 billion per year. The major public health issues associated with OA are likely to become even more important as our society ages. OA is considered a whole joint disease with pathologic changes that often involve all of the constituent joint tissues. Of increasing interest is the region of the osteochondral junction (OCJ), which encompasses the tissues between the deep uncalcified layers of cartilage and the marrow spaces of the trabecular bone. It includes the deep radial uncalcified cartilage, tidemark, calcified cartilage (CC), and subchondral bone (SCB) plate. While these tissues are avascular in the normal joint, in OA, osteoclasts are activated and form channels through the subchondral bone plate, allowing blood vessels and nerves to extend from the marrow into deep cartilage. This is associated with a cascade of abnormalities, including local inflammation and upregulation of metalloproteinase activity, extracellular matrix degradation, reduction of cartilage load-bearing capacity, and degenerative change. The OCJ may change dramatically in OA, and these changes may be relevant in its pathogenesis. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is widely used to directly and non-invasively evaluate articular cartilage and plays an important role in the clinical diagnosis and treatment of OA. However, MRI of the OCJ region is difficult due to the short mean transverse relaxation times (i.e., short T2 or T2*) of deep radial uncalcified articular cartilage, calcified cartilage, and subchondral bone, which result in little or no signal when conventional pulse sequences are used. In this study we aim to develop 3D adiabatic inversion recovery prepared ultrashort echo time Cones (3D IR-Cones) techniques for direct volumetric morphological imaging and quantitative mapping of the OCJ, to validate the signal sources, and finally develop translational 3D IR-Cones techniques for OCJ imaging in vivo. In Aim 1 we will further develop and validate 3D IR-Cones techniques for morphological and quantitative imaging of the OCJ in osteochondral samples from cadaveric human knee joints (n=10). We will investigate the effect of spatial resolution, long T2 suppression, RF power, and gradient strengths, as well as T1, T2*, and proton density weightings in OCJ imaging on a 3T Bruker small-bore scanner and a clinical 3T scanner, respectively. We will correlate morphological and quantitative Cones findings with µCT and histology. In Aim 2 we will develop translational 3D IR-Cones techniques for morphological and quantitative imaging of the OCJ in knee joints of healthy volunteers (n=10) and patients subject to total knee replacement (n=10). The excised osteochondral samples from relatively normal (n=10) and more degenerated regions (n=10) will be re-scanned with clinical and 3D IR-Cones sequences, followed by µCT imaging and histology. In vivo and ex vivo 3D IR- Cones imaging of the OCJ will be compared and correlated with µCT imaging and histology.

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• 发表时间: 2023-10-01
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• 通讯作者: Du J

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• 通讯作者: Ma YJ