Clinical measurement of bone structure using HR

Updates on XtremeCT I
& XtremeCT II
Nicolas Vilayphiou
SCANCO Medical AG
Switzerland
XtremeCT updates
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XtremeCT I
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Lower Leg Arterial Calcification
Soft Tissue Analysis
SPECTRA
XtremeCT II
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Scan protocols
MrOS Study & Proximal scanning
LLAC
Lower Leg Arterial Calcification
Quantification of lower leg arterial calcifications by high-resolution
peripheral quantitative computed tomography.
Patsch JM, Zulliger MA, Vilayphiou N, Samelson EJ, Cejka D, Diarra D, Berzaczy G,
Burghardt AJ, Link TM, Weber M, Loewe C.
Published in Bone – January 2014
Installation on request !!
Soft Tissue Analysis
Muscle Segmentation
Soft Tissue Analysis
Muscle Segmentation
Methods paper to be submitted soon in JCD
Installation on request, after publication
SPECTRA
SPECTRA
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Chairs :
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Dr. Stephanie Finzel (University of Nuremberg-Erlangen)
Dr. Cheryl Barnabe (University of Calgary)
Dr. Kathryn Stok (ETH Zurich)
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Study Group @ American College of Rheumatology
meeting
~ 40 participants
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OMERACT May 2014 in Budapest, Hungary.
Encouraged to pursue a workshop application for
OMERACT 2016.
SPECTRA
Last meeting June 2014, Lyon
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New members: Drs. Rosa Pereira (Brazil), and LS Tam (Hong
Kong).
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Perfusion study : small cortical breaks seen by micro-CT that are
linear in shape are in fact blood vessel channels.
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Development of an automated script to identify cortical breaks
(Maastricht).
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Ongoing comparison of different joint space width assessment
methods (Calgary, Lyon, UCSF).
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Work has begun on an image atlas (Maastricht) and a systematic
literature review.
SPECTRA
Detection of cortical break > 0.5mm
MCP joint of one case
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µCT image
b.
HR-pQCT image
SPECTRA
Upcoming events
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OMERACT Proposal due November 2014
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Study Group at the American College of Rheumatology,
Tuesday Nov 18
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Next SPECTRA Meeting at the University of Maastricht,
April 10-11 2015
New collaborators interested in the assessment of
inflammatory arthritis using HR-pQCT are always welcome
to join the group.
XtremeCT II
XtremeCT I *
82 µm
XtremeCT II
91 µm
µCT 100
XtremeCT II
25 µm
60 µm
*Multicenter Precision of Cortical and Trabecular Bone… (Burghardt et.al JBMR 2013)
XtremeCT II
Scan Protocols
XtremeCT
I
XtremeCT
II
Low res
High res
X-ray Tube
Voltage [kV]
60
68
68
Intensity [µA]
900
1460
1460
Integration Time [ms]
100
36
43
Projections [#]
750
750
900
Radiation [µSv]
<3
<3
<5
Scan time [min]
2.8
1.4
2
Voxel size[µm]
82
91 -> 82
61
MTF @10% [µm]
130
120
95
126
140
140
9
10
10
Number of slices [#]
110
110
164
Max scan length [mm]
150
200
200
Scan protocol
Resolution
Field of View
Diameter [mm]
Stack height [mm]
XtremeCT II
Scan Protocols
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Standard scan: 61 µm, 2 min scan time,
Z = 168 slices ~ 10mm
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No change (yet ?) to the reference line positioning
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Standard Distal Radius, 9mm prox. to the ref. line
Standard Distal Tibia, 22mm prox. to the ref. line
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XtremeCT I
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Radius offset : 9.5 mm
Tibia offset : 22.5 mm
XtremeCT II
Scan Protocols
XtremeCT II
MrOS
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Male Osteoporosis
~ 6000 men over 65 yrs, at start in 1999
Visit 4 includes HR-pQCT, using XtremeCT II
Multicentric study, 6 sites
Central analysis
Standard Distal Radius, 61 µm
Standard Distal Tibia, 61 µm
Proximal Tibia @ 30%, 61 µm
XtremeCT II
Proximal scanning
XtremeCT II
Proximal scanning
XtremeCT II
Proximal scanning
XtremeCT II
XtremeCT II
XtremeCT II