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Nitta N, Yamakawa M, Hachiya H, Shiina T. A review of physical and engineering factors potentially affecting shear wave elastography. J Med Ultrason (2001) 2021; 48:403-414. [PMID: 34453649 PMCID: PMC8578095 DOI: 10.1007/s10396-021-01127-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2021] [Accepted: 07/15/2021] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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It has been recognized that tissue stiffness provides useful diagnostic information, as with palpation as a screening for diseases such as cancer. In recent years, shear wave elastography (SWE), a technique for evaluating and imaging tissue elasticity quantitatively and objectively in diagnostic imaging, has been put into practical use, and the amount of clinical knowledge about SWE has increased. In addition, some guidelines and review papers regarding technology and clinical applications have been published, and the status as a diagnostic technology is in the process of being established. However, there are still unclear points about the interpretation of shear wave speed (SWS) and converted elastic modulus in SWE. To clarify these, it is important to investigate the factors that affect the SWS and elastic modulus. Therefore, physical and engineering factors that potentially affect the SWS and elastic modulus are discussed in this review paper, based on the principles of SWE and a literature review. The physical factors include the propagation properties of shear waves, mechanical properties (viscoelasticity, nonlinearity, and anisotropy), and size and shape of target tissues. The engineering factors include the region of interest depth and signal processing. The aim of this review paper is not to provide an answer to the interpretation of SWS. It is to provide information for readers to formulate and verify the hypothesis for the interpretation. Therefore, methods to verify the hypothesis for the interpretation are also reviewed. Finally, studies on the safety of SWE are discussed.
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- Naotaka Nitta
- Health and Medical Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 1-2-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8564, Japan.
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- Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8507, Japan
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- School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro, Tokyo, 152-8552, Japan
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- Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8507, Japan
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Diffusion of charged and uncharged contrast agents in equine mandibular condylar cartilage is not affected by an increased level of sugar-induced collagen crosslinking. J Mech Behav Biomed Mater 2018; 90:133-139. [PMID: 30366303 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2018.10.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2018] [Revised: 09/27/2018] [Accepted: 10/12/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Nutrition of articular cartilage relies mainly on diffusion and convection of solutes through the interstitial fluid due to the lack of blood vessels. The diffusion is controlled by two factors: steric hindrance and electrostatic interactions between the solutes and the matrix components. Aging comes with changes in the cartilage structure and composition, which can influence the diffusion. In this study, we treated fibrocartilage of mandibular condyle with ribose to induce an aging-like effect by accumulating collagen crosslinks. The effect of steric hindrance or electrostatic forces on the diffusion was analyzed using either charged (Hexabrix) or uncharged (Visipaque) contrast agents. Osteochondral plugs from young equine mandibular condyles were treated with 500 mM ribose for 7 days. The effect of crosslinking on mechanical properties was then evaluated via dynamic indentation. Thereafter, the samples were exposed to contrast agents and imaged using contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CECT) at 18 different time points up to 48 h to measure their diffusion. Normalized concentration of contrast agents in the cartilage and contrast agent diffusion flux, as well as the content of crosslink level (pentosidine), water, collagen, and glycosaminoglycan (GAG) were determined. Ribose treatment significantly increased the pentosidine level (from 0.01 to 7.6 mmol/mol collagen), which resulted in an increase in tissue stiffness (~1.5 fold). Interestingly, the normalized concentration and diffusion flux did not change after the induction of an increased level of pentosidine either for Hexabrix or Visipaque. The results of this study strongly suggest that sugar-induced collagen crosslinking in TMJ condylar cartilage does not affect the diffusion properties.
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Han G, Hess C, Eriten M, Henak CR. Uncoupled poroelastic and intrinsic viscoelastic dissipation in cartilage. J Mech Behav Biomed Mater 2018; 84:28-34. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2018.04.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2018] [Revised: 04/09/2018] [Accepted: 04/25/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Kobayashi Y, Terada Y. Diffusion-weighting Caused by Spoiler Gradients in the Fast Imaging with Steady-state Precession Sequence May Lead to Inaccurate T 2 Measurements in MR Fingerprinting. Magn Reson Med Sci 2018; 18:96-104. [PMID: 29794408 PMCID: PMC6326765 DOI: 10.2463/mrms.tn.2018-0027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) is a promising framework that allows the quantification of multiple magnetic resonance parameters with a single scan. MRF using fast imaging with steady-state precession (MRF-FISP) has robustness to off-resonance artifacts and has many applications in inhomogeneous fields. However, the spoiler gradient used in MRF-FISP is sensitive to diffusion motion, and may lead to quantification errors when the spoiler moment increases. In this study, we examined the effect of the diffusion weighting in MRF-FISP caused by spoiler gradients. The T2 relaxation times were greatly underestimated when large spoiler moments were used. The T2 underestimation was prominent for tissues with large values of T2 and diffusion coefficients. The T2 bias was almost independent of the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) and T2 values when the ADC map was measured and incorporated into the matching process. These results reveal that the T2 underestimation resulted from the diffusion weighting caused by the spoiler gradients.
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Hadidi P, Cissell DD, Hu JC, Athanasiou KA. Temporal development of near-native functional properties and correlations with qMRI in self-assembling fibrocartilage treated with exogenous lysyl oxidase homolog 2. Acta Biomater 2017; 64:29-40. [PMID: 28963018 PMCID: PMC5682207 DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2017.09.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2017] [Revised: 09/22/2017] [Accepted: 09/25/2017] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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UNLABELLED Advances in cartilage tissue engineering have led to constructs with mechanical integrity and biochemical composition increasingly resembling that of native tissues. In particular, collagen cross-linking with lysyl oxidase has been used to significantly enhance the mechanical properties of engineered neotissues. In this study, development of collagen cross-links over time, and correlations with tensile properties, were examined in self-assembling neotissues. Additionally, quantitative MRI metrics were examined in relation to construct mechanical properties as well as pyridinoline cross-link content and other engineered tissue components. Scaffold-free meniscus fibrocartilage was cultured in the presence of exogenous lysyl oxidase, and assessed at multiple time points over 8weeks starting from the first week of culture. Engineered constructs demonstrated a 9.9-fold increase in pyridinoline content, reaching 77% of native tissue values, after 8weeks of culture. Additionally, engineered tissues reached 66% of the Young's modulus in the radial direction of native tissues. Further, collagen cross-links were found to correlate with tensile properties, contributing 67% of the tensile strength of engineered neocartilages. Finally, examination of quantitative MRI metrics revealed several correlations with mechanical and biochemical properties of engineered constructs. This study displays the importance of culture duration for collagen cross-link formation, and demonstrates the potential of quantitative MRI in investigating properties of engineered cartilages. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE This is the first study to demonstrate near-native cross-link content in an engineered tissue, and the first study to quantify pyridinoline cross-link development over time in a self-assembling tissue. Additionally, this work shows the relative contributions of collagen and pyridinoline to the tensile properties of collagenous tissue for the first time. Furthermore, this is the first investigation to identify a relationship between qMRI metrics and the pyridinoline cross-link content of an engineered collagenous tissue.
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- Pasha Hadidi
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, 3120 Natural Sciences II, Irvine, CA 92697-2715, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616, USA.
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Ferizi U, Rossi I, Lee Y, Lendhey M, Teplensky J, Kennedy OD, Kirsch T, Bencardino J, Raya JG. Diffusion tensor imaging of articular cartilage at 3T correlates with histology and biomechanics in a mechanical injury model. Magn Reson Med 2017; 78:69-78. [PMID: 27455389 PMCID: PMC9175493 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.26336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2016] [Revised: 06/01/2016] [Accepted: 06/20/2016] [Indexed: 01/23/2024]
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PURPOSE We establish a mechanical injury model for articular cartilage to assess the sensitivity of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) in detecting cartilage damage early in time. Mechanical injury provides a more realistic model of cartilage degradation compared with commonly used enzymatic degradation. METHODS Nine cartilage-on-bone samples were obtained from patients undergoing knee replacement. The 3 Tesla DTI (0.18 × 0.18 × 1 mm3 ) was performed before, 1 week, and 2 weeks after (zero, mild, and severe) injury, with a clinical radial spin-echo DTI (RAISED) sequence used in our hospital. We performed stress-relaxation tests and used a quasilinear-viscoelastic (QLV) model to characterize cartilage mechanical properties. Serial histology sections were dyed with Safranin-O and given an OARSI grade. We then correlated the changes in DTI parameters with the changes in QLV-parameters and OARSI grades. RESULTS After severe injury the mean diffusivity increased after 1 and 2 weeks, whereas the fractional anisotropy decreased after 2 weeks (P < 0.05). The QLV-parameters and OARSI grades of the severe injury group differed from the baseline with statistical significance. The changes in mean diffusivity across all the samples correlated with the changes in the OARSI grade (r = 0.72) and QLV-parameters (r = -0.75). CONCLUSION DTI is sensitive in tracking early changes after mechanical injury, and its changes correlate with changes in biomechanics and histology. Magn Reson Med 78:69-78, 2017. © 2016 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
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- Uran Ferizi
- Department of Radiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Radiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
- Centro de Diagnostico Dr. Enrique Rossi, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, New York University Hospital for Joint Diseases, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, New York University Hospital for Joint Diseases, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Radiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, New York University Hospital for Joint Diseases, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, New York University Hospital for Joint Diseases, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Radiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, New York University Hospital for Joint Diseases, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Radiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
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Raya JG. Techniques and applications of in vivo diffusion imaging of articular cartilage. J Magn Reson Imaging 2015; 41:1487-504. [PMID: 25865215 DOI: 10.1002/jmri.24767] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2014] [Accepted: 09/11/2014] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Early in the process of osteoarthritis (OA) the composition (water, proteoglycan [PG], and collagen) and structure of articular cartilage is altered leading to changes in its mechanical properties. A technique that can assess the composition and structure of the cartilage in vivo can provide insight in the mechanical integrity of articular cartilage and become a powerful tool for the early diagnosis of OA. Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) has been proposed as a biomarker for cartilage composition and structure. DTI is sensitive to the PG content through the mean diffusivity and to the collagen architecture through the fractional anisotropy. However, the acquisition of DTI of articular cartilage in vivo is challenging due to the short T2 of articular cartilage (∼40 ms at 3 Tesla) and the high resolution needed (0.5-0.7 mm in plane) to depict the cartilage anatomy. We describe the pulse sequences used for in vivo DTI of articular cartilage and discus general strategies for protocol optimization. We provide a comprehensive review of measurements of DTI of articular cartilage from ex vivo validation experiments to its recent clinical applications.
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- José G Raya
- Department Radiology, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
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Gao X, Gu W. A new constitutive model for hydration-dependent mechanical properties in biological soft tissues and hydrogels. J Biomech 2014; 47:3196-200. [PMID: 25001202 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2014.06.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2014] [Revised: 06/04/2014] [Accepted: 06/10/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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It is challenging to noninvasively determine the mechanical properties of biological soft tissues in vivo. In this study, based on the biphasic theory and the transport models, a new constitutive model for hydration-dependent mechanical properties in hydrated soft materials was derived: HA = An(1-fϕ)(fϕ)2-n/2(2-fϕ), where HA(=λ+2 μ) is the aggregate modulus, ϕ(f) is the volume fraction of fluid (i.e., hydration), A and n (>2) are two parameters related to the transport properties of the biphasic materials. A linear model for hydration-dependent shear modulus in the literature was verified for hydrogels. The effects of tissue hydration on mechanical properties (aggregate modulus and Poisson's ratio) were investigated. It was found that the value of Poisson's ratio was very sensitive to the tissue hydration in soft materials with high water content. The predictions of the aggregate modulus and shear modulus for hydrogels by the model compared well with those from experimental results. This study is important for developing new techniques for noninvasively assessing the mechanical properties of biological soft tissues using quantitative MRI methods as well as for designing scaffolds with proper mechanical properties for tissue engineering applications.
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- Xin Gao
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Tissue Biomechanics Laboratory, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, United States
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Tissue Biomechanics Laboratory, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, United States; Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124-0624, United States.
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