A comparison of four techniques to measure anterior and posterior vertebral body heights and sagittal plane wedge angles in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis

Newell, Nicolas, Grant, Caroline A., Keenan, Bethany ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7787-2892, Izatt, Maree T., Pearcy, Mark J. and Adam, Clayton J. 2017. A comparison of four techniques to measure anterior and posterior vertebral body heights and sagittal plane wedge angles in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing 55 (4) , pp. 561-572. 10.1007/s11517-016-1520-y

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Abstract

Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is a three-dimensional (3D) spinal deformity of unknown aetiology. Increased growth of the anterior part of the vertebrae known as anterior overgrowth has been proposed as a potential driver for AIS initiation and progression. To date, there has been no objective evaluation of the 3D measurement techniques used to identify this phenomenon and the majority of previous studies use 2D planar assessments which contain inherent projection errors due to the vertebral rotation which is part of the AIS deformity. In this study, vertebral body (VB) heights and wedge angles were measured in a test group of AIS patients and healthy controls using four different image analysis and measurement techniques. Significant differences were seen between the techniques in terms of VB heights and VB wedge angles. The low variability, and the fact that the rotation and tilt of the deformed VBs are taken into account, suggests that the proposed technique using the full 3D orientation of the vertebrae is the most reliable method to measure anterior and posterior VB heights and sagittal plane wedge angles in 3D image data sets. These results have relevance for future investigations that aim to quantify anterior overgrowth in AIS patients for comparison with healthy controls.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Engineering Medicine
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General) T Technology > TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Anterior overgrowth Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis MRI Spinal deformity Vertebral body
Publisher:	Springer
ISSN:	0140-0118
Date of Acceptance:	2 May 2016
Last Modified:	01 Nov 2022 11:27
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/95023

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