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. 2010 Dec 8;2011:475684. doi: 10.1155/2011/475684

Table 2.

Rate of change and sensitivity to change over 2 years in 28 participants with Kellgren-Lawrence grade [KLG] 3, and test-retest reproducibility in 33 participants with KLG0 to KLG3 for various cartilage morphology metrics and regions of interest in the medial femorotibial compartment.

MT cMF 60%
MC% SRM P RMSCV% MC% SRM P RMSCV%
VC −2.3 −0.44 .03 2.5% −3.5 −0.32 .10 2.6%
tAB 0.5 0.37 .06 1.0% −0.1 −0.04 .84 1.1%
AC −0.9 −0.33 .09 1.0% −1.7 −0.22 .26 1.3%
cAB −1.0 −0.29 .14 1.0% −3.0 −0.36 .07 1.1%
VCtAB −2.7 −0.59 .00 1.9% −4.0 −0.33 .09 2.0%
ThCtAB.aMe −2.6 −0.58 .01 1.9% −3.6 −0.31 .12 1.7%
ThCtAB.bMe −2.8 −0.62 .00 1.9% −3.3 −0.29 .13 1.9%
ThCtAB.cMe −2.5 −0.56 .01 2.0% −3.9 −0.33 .10 1.7%
ThCcAB.aMe −1.4 −0.43 .03 1.9% −1.5 −0.18 .34 1.7%
ThCcAB.bMe −1.5 −0.48 .02 1.9% −1.2 −0.15 .43 1.9%
ThCcAB.cMe −1.3 −0.42 .04 2.0% −2.0 −0.23 .23 1.7%
ThCtAB.aMax −1.4 −0.27 .17 4.4% 0.0 0.00 .99 2.8%
ThCtAB.bMax −1.7 −0.30 .12 4.2% 0.7 0.10 .61 3.3%
ThCtAB.cMax −1.1 −0.18 .35 5.3% −0.5 −0.09 .65 3.2%
ThCtAB.aMav −1.4 −0.31 .11 3.8% −0.3 −0.05 .79 2.5%
ThCtAB.bMav −1.7 −0.35 .07 3.5% 0.0 0.00 .98 2.8%
ThCtAB.cMav −1.3 −0.25 .19 4.5% −0.5 −0.09 .65 2.8%

MC%: mean change in %, SRM: standardized response mean (= mean change/SD of change), P: level of significance of change using a paired t-test without adjustment for multiple comparisons; RMSCV%: root mean square coefficient of variation of test-retest acquisitions at baseline, with repositioning in between scans. For other abbreviations, please see Table 1. Note that values are given for the “long” femoral region of interest, that is, a 60% distance between the trochlear notch and the posterior end of both femoral condyles.