期刊
JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING
卷 29, 期 3, 页码 576-582出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21697
关键词
wall thickness; cardiovascular MRI; atherosclerosis
资金
- Donald W. Reynolds Foundation
- NIH/NCRR-CR
- USPHS GCRC [M01-RR00633]
Purpose: To assess the agreement between three methods of calculation of mean aortic wall thickness (MAWT) using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Materials and Methods: High-resolution MRI of the infra-renal abdominal aorta was performed on 70 subjects with a history of coronary artery disease who were part of a multi-ethnic population-based sample. MAWT was calculated as the mean distance between the adventitial and luminal aortic boundaries using three different methods: average distance at four standard positions (AWT-4P). average distance at 100 automated positions (AWT-100P), and using a mathematical computation derived from the total vessel and luminal areas (AWT-VA). Bland-Altman plots and Passing-Bablok regression analyses were used to assess agreement between methods. Results: Bland-Altman analyses demonstrated a positive bias of 3.02 +/- 7.31% between the AWT-VA and the AWT-4P methods, and of 1.76 +/- 6.82% between the WT-100P and the AWT-4P methods. Passing-Bablok regression analyses demonstrated constant bias between the AWT-4P method and the other two methods. Proportional bias was, however, not evident among the three methods. Conclusion: MRI methods of measurement of MAWT using a limited number of positions of the aortic wall systematically underestimate the MAWT value compared with the method that calculates MAWT from the vessel areas.
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