Interior photon counting computed tomography for quantification of coronary artery calcium : pre-clinical phantom study |
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Author: | Juntunen, Mikael A. K.1,2; Sepponen, Pasi1; Korhonen, Kristiina1; |
Organizations: |
1Research Unit of Medical Imaging, Physics and Technology, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland 2Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland 3Cancer and Translational Medicine Research Unit, Medical Research Center, University of Oulu and Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
4Medical Research Center, University of Oulu and Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
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Format: | article |
Version: | published version |
Access: | open |
Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 1.6 MB) |
Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2020091069222 |
Language: | English |
Published: |
IOP Publishing,
2020
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Publish Date: | 2020-09-10 |
Description: |
AbstractComputed tomography (CT) is the reference method for cardiac imaging, but concerns have been raised regarding the radiation dose of CT examinations. Recently, photon counting detectors (PCDs) and interior tomography, in which the radiation beam is limited to the organ-of-interest, have been suggested for patient dose reduction. In this study, we investigated interior PCD-CT (iPCD-CT) for non-enhanced quantification of coronary artery calcium (CAC) using an anthropomorphic torso phantom and ex vivo coronary artery samples. We reconstructed the iPCD-CT measurements with filtered back projection (FBP), iterative total variation (TV) regularization, padded FBP, and adaptively detruncated FBP and adaptively detruncated TV. We compared the organ doses between conventional CT and iPCD-CT geometries, assessed the truncation and cupping artifacts with iPCD-CT, and evaluated the CAC quantification performance of iPCD-CT. With approximately the same effective dose between conventional CT geometry (0.30 mSv) and interior PCD-CT with 10.2 cm field-of-view (0.27 mSv), the organ dose of the heart was increased by 52.3% with interior PCD-CT when compared to CT. Conversely, the organ doses to peripheral and radiosensitive organs, such as the stomach (55.0% reduction), were often reduced with interior PCD-CT. FBP and TV did not sufficiently reduce the truncation artifact, whereas padded FBP and adaptively detruncated FBP and TV yielded satisfactory truncation artifact reduction. Notably, the adaptive detruncation algorithm reduced truncation artifacts effectively when it was combined with reconstruction detrending. With this approach, the CAC quantification accuracy was good, and the coronary artery disease grade reclassification rate was particularly low (5.6%). Thus, our results confirm that CAC quantification can be performed with the interior CT geometry, that the artifacts are effectively reduced with suitable interior reconstruction methods, and that interior tomography provides efficient patient dose reduction. see all
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Series: |
Biomedical physics & engineering express |
ISSN: | 2057-1976 |
ISSN-E: | 2057-1976 |
ISSN-L: | 2057-1976 |
Volume: | 6 |
Issue: | 5 |
Article number: | 055011 |
DOI: | 10.1088/2057-1976/aba133 |
OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.1088/2057-1976/aba133 |
Type of Publication: |
A1 Journal article – refereed |
Field of Science: |
3126 Surgery, anesthesiology, intensive care, radiology |
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Funding: |
We acknowledge funding from the Academy of Finland (project: 316899), Business Finland (project: 1392/31/2016), Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation, and Oulu University Hospital (VTR: K33475). |
Academy of Finland Grant Number: |
316899 |
Detailed Information: |
316899 (Academy of Finland Funding decision) |
Copyright information: |
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |