Agnes G. d'Entremont1,2, Jurek
Nordmeyer-Massner3, Clemens Bos4, David R. Wilson,
2,5, Klaas Pruessmann3
1Mechanical Engineering, University of
British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; 2Centre for Hip Health
and Mobility, Vancouver, BC, Canada; 3Institute for Biomedical
Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; 4MR Clinical
Science, Philips Healthcare, Best, Netherlands; 5Orthopaedics,
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
We
developed and tested the feasibility of a new dynamic imaging method for
kinematic measurement of the knee joint.
One subject was scanned using a validated static method, as well as
using modified (fast) static and dynamic methods under load and over a range
of motion. Differences between the
standard and fast static methods were within expected errors. The dynamic method provided more data in a
shorter time, and produced similar results to the static scans. The results of this work indicates that
this is a viable new method for measuring the kinematic rotations and
translations of the knee bones.