Influence of acquisition settings and radiation exposure on CT lung densitometry-An anthropomorphic ex vivo phantom study.

Autor: Patricia Leutz-Schmidt, Mark O Wielpütz, Stephan Skornitzke, Oliver Weinheimer, Hans-Ulrich Kauczor, Michael U Puderbach, Gregor Pahn, Wolfram Stiller
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: PLoS ONE, Vol 15, Iss 8, p e0237434 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0237434
Popis: OBJECTIVES:To systematically evaluate the influence of acquisition settings in conjunction with raw-data based iterative image reconstruction (IR) on lung densitometry based on multi-row detector computed tomography (CT) in an anthropomorphic chest phantom. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Ten porcine heart-lung explants were mounted in an ex vivo chest phantom shell, six with highly and four with low attenuating chest wall. CT (Somatom Definition Flash, Siemens Healthineers) was performed at 120kVp and 80kVp, each combined with current-time products of 120, 60, 30, and 12mAs, and was reconstructed with filtered back projection (FBP) and IR (Safire, Siemens Healthineers). Mean lung density (LD), air density (AD) and noise were measured by semi-automated region-of interest (ROI) analysis, with 120kVp/120 mAs serving as the standard of reference. RESULTS:Using IR, noise in lung parenchyma was reduced by ~ 31% at high attenuating chest wall and by ~ 22% at low attenuating chest wall compared to FBP, respectively (p
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