TY - JOUR
T1 - Reproducibility of thoracic and abdominal aortic wall measurements with three-dimensional, variable flip angle (SPACE) MRI
AU - Mihai, Georgeta
AU - Varghese, Juliet
AU - Lu, Bo
AU - Zhu, Hong
AU - Simonetti, Orlando P.
AU - Rajagopalan, Sanjay
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - Purpose: To evaluate the reproducibility and repeatability of high-resolution, isotropic thoracic and abdominal aortic wall measurements, and determine the implications they have on the number of subjects necessary for future clinical trials.Materials and Methods: Using a T1-weighted threedimensional MRI SPACE sequence, we evaluated the interobserver, intraobserver, and scan-rescan variability of isotropic thoracic and abdominal aortic wall measurements in 15 cardiovascular diseased patients and 6 normal volunteers. Main outcome analyses were intracorrelation coefficient (ICC), mean relative error (mRE), and sample size calculation at 80% power to be used to compare placebo group and treatment group means in future two-arm randomized clinical trials.Results: Excellent reliability, ICC>0.8 (P<0.001) and small mRE<10% were demonstrated for the interobserver, intraobserver, and scan-rescan variability for all investigated measures: lumen area (LA), outer wall area (OWA), wall area (VWA), total wall volume (TWV), and percentage wall volume (%WV). Sample size calculation revealed slightly different sample size per treatment arm for thoracic and abdominal aorta segments (maximum number of subjects: 352 subjects for thoracic segment versus 421 subjects for abdominal segment for LA at 5% difference, and minimum of 3 thoracic versus 4 abdominal subjects needed for %WV evaluation at 25% difference).Conclusion: Our study demonstrates the reproducibility and repeatability of SPACE aortic plaque measurements, and gives insight into the number of subjects needed for the design of therapeutic studies in aortic atherosclerosis.
AB - Purpose: To evaluate the reproducibility and repeatability of high-resolution, isotropic thoracic and abdominal aortic wall measurements, and determine the implications they have on the number of subjects necessary for future clinical trials.Materials and Methods: Using a T1-weighted threedimensional MRI SPACE sequence, we evaluated the interobserver, intraobserver, and scan-rescan variability of isotropic thoracic and abdominal aortic wall measurements in 15 cardiovascular diseased patients and 6 normal volunteers. Main outcome analyses were intracorrelation coefficient (ICC), mean relative error (mRE), and sample size calculation at 80% power to be used to compare placebo group and treatment group means in future two-arm randomized clinical trials.Results: Excellent reliability, ICC>0.8 (P<0.001) and small mRE<10% were demonstrated for the interobserver, intraobserver, and scan-rescan variability for all investigated measures: lumen area (LA), outer wall area (OWA), wall area (VWA), total wall volume (TWV), and percentage wall volume (%WV). Sample size calculation revealed slightly different sample size per treatment arm for thoracic and abdominal aorta segments (maximum number of subjects: 352 subjects for thoracic segment versus 421 subjects for abdominal segment for LA at 5% difference, and minimum of 3 thoracic versus 4 abdominal subjects needed for %WV evaluation at 25% difference).Conclusion: Our study demonstrates the reproducibility and repeatability of SPACE aortic plaque measurements, and gives insight into the number of subjects needed for the design of therapeutic studies in aortic atherosclerosis.
KW - Aorta
KW - Atherosclerosis
KW - Clinical trial
KW - Magnetic resonance imaging
KW - Reproducibility
KW - Variable flip angle
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U2 - 10.1002/jmri.24545
DO - 10.1002/jmri.24545
M3 - Article
C2 - 24382710
AN - SCOPUS:84919352931
SN - 1053-1807
VL - 41
SP - 202
EP - 212
JO - Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
JF - Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
IS - 1
ER -