Quantification of microarchitectural anisotropy in bone with diffraction enhanced imaging

Dean M. Connor Jr.; Meenal Mehrotra; Amanda C. LaRue

doi:10.1117/12.2043309

19 March 2014 Quantification of microarchitectural anisotropy in bone with diffraction enhanced imaging

Dean M. Connor Jr., Meenal Mehrotra, Amanda C. LaRue

Proceedings Volume 9033, Medical Imaging 2014: Physics of Medical Imaging; 90332C (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2043309
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2014, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine if diffraction enhanced imaging (DEI) can quantify anisotropy in bone microarchitecture. Background: Osteoporosis is characterized by low bone mass and microarchitectural deterioration of bone. A noninvasive tool for measuring the degree of anisotropy (DA) in bone microarchitecture will help clinicians better assess fracture risk in osteoporotic patients. DEI detects small angular deflections in an x-ray beam, and is only sensitive to angular changes in one plane. If the beam is refracted by multiple anisotropic microstructures (e.g. osteocyte lacunae and pores) in bone, the angular spreading can be measured with DEI and differences in the amount of spreading for different bone orientations is indicative of the DA in bone microarchitecture. Method: An x-ray-tube based DEI system was used to collect an array of DEI reflectivity profiles measured through bovine cortical bone samples with the bones oriented with the bone axis in the plane perpendicular to the propagation of the x-ray beam. Micro-CT images of the bones were obtained using a Scanco uCT40 ex vivo scanner, and the DA of the pore structure was quantified using BoneJ. Results: The maximum and minimum measured reflectivity profile widths through bone varied by a factor of two; this suggests that the microarchitecture is preferentially aligned with the bone axis in a 2-to-1 ratio. The DA for the cortical pores was 0.6, which agrees with DEI’s anisotropy measure. Conclusions: The preliminary findings of this study suggest that DEI is sensitive to anisotropy in bone microarchitecture.

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Dean M. Connor Jr., Meenal Mehrotra, and Amanda C. LaRue "Quantification of microarchitectural anisotropy in bone with diffraction enhanced imaging", Proc. SPIE 9033, Medical Imaging 2014: Physics of Medical Imaging, 90332C (19 March 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2043309

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