Design, Development and Validation of a Knee Brace to Standardize the US Imaging Evaluation of Knee Osteoarthritis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

A repeatable and reliable follow-up of knee injuries would be desirable to prevent delayed diagnosis and to monitor the efficacy of the applied treatment over time. Ultrasound (US) techniques are an attractive option to this purpose, since they are safe, low-cost and non-invasive. However, its use in the clinical practice is limited by the high dependency on the operator's experience. Hence, the objective of this study is to provide a standardization of the US image acquisition process for knee osteoarthritis (OA) allowing an extended clinical use of US technologies in this domain.

Methods

Clinical specifications were provided by expert musculoskeletal radiologists thus identifying the subject poses and the US probe positions needed to evaluate the cartilage struct

SUBMITTER: Sorriento A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8979410 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature