Coefficients of variation (RMS CV%) for repeated measurements of quantitative knee cartilage morphology parameters for dual acquisitions of the coronal FLASHwe and coronal MPR
| tAB | cAB | AC | VC | VCtAB | ThCtAB | ThCcAB | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cAB, cartilage covered subchondral bone area; VCtAB, volume of cartilage normalised to subchondral bone area; ThCtAB, mean cartilage thickness over total subchondral bone area; for other abbreviations see the footnote to table 1. Precision error of corMPR DESSwe was significantly different from that of cor FLASHwe at *p<0.05; **p<0.01. | |||||||
| Coronal FLASHwe | |||||||
| Medial tibia | 2.8 | 2.7 | 2.9 | 3.8 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 3.0 |
| Lateral tibia | 3.1 | 3.1 | 3.5 | 5.7 | 3.6 | 3.4 | 3.5 |
| Central medial femur | 5.4 | 6.3 | 5.9 | 6.4 | 5.6 | 5.4 | 3.8 |
| Central lateral femur | 4.3 | 4.2 | 4.5 | 5.3 | 4.4 | 4.2 | 3.8 |
| Coronal MPR DESSwe | |||||||
| Medial tibia | 2.3 | 1.9 | 2.3 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 3.7 | 3.5 |
| Lateral tibia | 3.6 | 3.4 | 3.1 | 4.3 | 2.5 | 2.4 | 2.5 |
| Central medial femur | 2.8* | 2.9** | 3.1* | 6.2 | 4.7 | 4.9 | 4.5 |
| Central lateral femur | 2.2* | 2.2* | 2.4* | 4.0 | 3.7 | 3.3 | 3.3 |