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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Sports Med. 2019 Jun 5;47(8):1831–1843. doi: 10.1177/0363546519850572

Table 3:

Regression coefficients for the MRI-based predictors of the reconstructed graft cross-sectional area/signal intensity at 24 months. There were no significant associations. β is regression slope, representing change in the outcome per unit change in the predictor.

Graft Properties (24 months)
Cross-Sectional Area
Signal Intensity
MRI-based Predictors β
(95% CI)
R2 P-value β
(95% CI)
R2 P-value

Contralateral Intact ACL Signal Intensity −11.02 (−44.45, 22.42) .13 .436 0.16 (−0.46, 0.79) .08 .529
Contralateral Intact ACL Cross-sectional Area 0.32 (−0.50, 1.14) .16 .368 −0.01 (−0.02, 0.01) .28 .224
Normalized Femoral Stump Length 0.31 (−1.12, 1.75) .06 .600 0.02 (0.00, 0.04) .53 .062
Normalized Tibial Stump Length −0.35 (−1.20, 0.50) .18 .339 −0.01 (−0.02, 0.01) .30 .203
Lateral Tibial Slope −2.92 (−8.06, 2.23) .30 .205 0.04 (−0.07, 0.14) .13 .418
Medial Tibial Slope −2.38 (−6.51, 1.76) .30 .200 0.05 (−0.03, 0.12) .33 .174
Medial Tibial Depth 1.27 (−17.09, 19.62) .01 .866 0.06 (−0.27, 0.39) .04 .668
Notch Width (pre-operative) 1.09 (−2.50, 4.68) .11 .609 −0.03 (−0.09, 0.03) .26 .246
Notch Width (post-operative) 0.13 (−4.29, 4.56) .01 .941 −0.02 (−0.10, 0.06) .06 .604
Amount of Notchplasty −2.23 (−7.32, 2.87) .20 .312 0.04 (−0.05, 0.13) .20 .311

N= 7 for all analyses