Measurement of synovial membrane inflammation
| Lining layer thickness (n = 17) | CD8+ cell infiltration (n = 20) | CD3+ cell infiltration (n = 19) | Vascularity (n = 22) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image analysis (μm) |
Conventional microscopy (cell depth) | Image analysis (%) | Conventional microscopy (cells/mm2) | Image analysis (%) | Conventional micoscopy (cells/mm2) | Image analysis (%) | Conventional microscopy (vessels/mm2) | ||||||
| 8.9 | 2 | 0.1 | 48 | 1.9 | 336 | 1.9 | 6 | ||||||
| 10.5 | 2 | 1.0 | 153 | 3.1 | 568 | 1.9 | 129 | ||||||
| 11.1 | 2 | 1.1 | 107 | 6.1 | 682 | 2.7 | 6 | ||||||
| 11.6 | 2 | 1.2 | 125 | 6.3 | 836 | 2.8 | 5 | ||||||
| 12.1 | 2 | 1.4 | 93 | 6.6 | 293 | 4.5 | 10 | ||||||
| 12.7 | 3 | 1.7 | 170 | 8.1 | 672 | 4.6 | 4 | ||||||
| 15.0 | 4 | 1.7 | 267 | 8.4 | 1056 | 4.7 | 16 | ||||||
| 15.1 | 3 | 1.8 | 528 | 9.2 | 1477 | 4.8 | 75 | ||||||
| 16.8 | 4 | 1.9 | 175 | 9.5 | 544 | 5.2 | 162 | ||||||
| 21.1 | 3 | 1.9 | 306 | 5.7 | 1376 | 5.7 | 64 | ||||||
| 23.5 | 4 | 2.0 | 220 | 10.7 | 1056 | 6.1 | 112 | ||||||
| 24.4 | 4 | 2.7 | 195 | 13.9 | 1103 | 6.2 | 7 | ||||||
| 24.4 | 7 | 2.7 | 418 | 14.3 | 896 | 6.5 | 93 | ||||||
| 26.5 | 4 | 2.8 | 156 | 14.4 | 1280 | 6.5 | 80 | ||||||
| 27.4 | 3 | 2.8 | 353 | 20.2 | 915 | 6.9 | 14 | ||||||
| 28.3 | 5 | 3.6 | 423 | 20.5 | 507 | 7.2 | 62 | ||||||
| 82.9 | 9 | 3.9 | 154 | 21.3 | 1738 | 8.7 | 207 | ||||||
| 4.2 | 426 | 23.5 | 1053 | 9.1 | 6 | ||||||||
| 6.2 | 528 | 23.5 | 1640 | 9.2 | 10 | ||||||||
| 7.7 | 260 | 9.6 | 105 | ||||||||||
| 11.4 | 139 | ||||||||||||
| 14.6 | 14 | ||||||||||||