Abstracts tagged "diagnostic imaging and measure"

Abstract Number: 1323 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Reaching Consensus – Volumetric Joint Space Width Calculations in Finger Joints of Arthritis Patients
Kathryn S. Stok^1,2, Andrew J. Burghardt³, Stephanie Boutroy⁴, Nicolas Vilayphiou², Xiaojuan Li⁵, Hubert Marotte⁶, Steven K. Boyd⁷ and Cheryl Barnabe⁷, ¹Institute for Biomechanics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, ²Scanco Medical AG, Brüttisellen, Switzerland, ³Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁴INSERM UMR 1033, University of Lyon, Lyon, France, ⁵Radiology & Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁶INSERM 1059 / LBTO, Université de Lyon, Saint-Etienne; Rheumatology Department, Saint-Etienne, France, ⁷Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Background/Purpose: Joint space width (JSW) is suggested as an indirect measure of arthritis disease activity and could be used as a measure of radiographic progression…