Work in progress: hybrid temporal-energy subtraction in digital fluoroscopy.

Autor: Van Lysel MS, Dobbins JT 3rd, Peppler WW, Hasegawa BH, Lee CS, Mistretta CA, Zarnstorff WC, Crummy AB, Kubal W, Bergsjordet B, Strother CM, Sackett JF
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Radiology [Radiology] 1983 Jun; Vol. 147 (3), pp. 869-74.
DOI: 10.1148/radiology.147.3.6342038
Abstrakt: Initial clinical results using a digital fluoroscopic implementation of the combined time-energy ("hybrid") subtraction technique are described, with emphasis on carotid and renal imaging. Where patient motion artifacts are due to soft-tissue motion alone, hybrid subtraction can remove them. Due to the need for a finite separation time between high- and low-energy pairs, however, the present implementation of the hybrid technique is not completely immune to soft-tissue motion. The intrinsic signal-to-noise ratio of hybrid imaging is less than that of conventional temporal subtraction. However, since the low-energy temporal subtraction images are included in the hybrid data set, the diagnostic quality of the examination is not compromised.
Databáze: MEDLINE