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Investigating the minimum scan parameters required to generate free-breathing motion artefact-free fast-helical CT.
British Journal of Radiology 2018 Februrary
OBJECTIVE: A recently proposed "5DCT" protocol uses deformable registration of free-breathing fast-helical CT scans to generate a breathing motion model. In order to allow accurate registration, free-breathing images are required to be free of doubling-artefacts, which arise when tissue motion is greater than scan speed.
METHODS: Using a unique set of digital phantoms based on patient data and verified with a motion phantom, this work identifies the minimum scanner parameters required to successfully generate free-breathing artefact-free fast-helical scans. A motion phantom and 5 patients were imaged 25 times under free-breathing conditions in alternating directions with a 64-slice CT scanner employing a low-dose fast-helical protocol. A series of high temporal resolution (0.1 s) 5DCT scan data sets was generated in each case. A simulated CT scanner was used to "image" each free-breathing data set. Various CT scanner detector widths and rotation times were simulated, and verified using the motion phantom results. Motion-induced artefacts were quantified in patient images using structural similarity maps to determine the similarity between axial slices.
RESULTS: Increasing amounts of motion-induced artefacts were observed with increasing rotation times >0.2 s for 16 mm detector configuration.
CONCLUSION: The current generation of 16-slice CT scanners, which are present in the majority of Radiation Oncology departments, are not capable of generating free-breathing sorting artefact-free images required for 5DCT. Advances in knowledge: A recently proposed "5DCT" protocol uses deformable registration of free-breathing fast-helical CT scans to generate a breathing motion model. In order to allow accurate registration, free-breathing images are required to be free of doubling-artefacts, which arise when tissue motion is greater than scan speed. The results suggest that the current generation of 16-slice CT scanners, present in the majority of Radiation Oncology departments, are not capable of generating the free-breathing images required for 5DCT.
METHODS: Using a unique set of digital phantoms based on patient data and verified with a motion phantom, this work identifies the minimum scanner parameters required to successfully generate free-breathing artefact-free fast-helical scans. A motion phantom and 5 patients were imaged 25 times under free-breathing conditions in alternating directions with a 64-slice CT scanner employing a low-dose fast-helical protocol. A series of high temporal resolution (0.1 s) 5DCT scan data sets was generated in each case. A simulated CT scanner was used to "image" each free-breathing data set. Various CT scanner detector widths and rotation times were simulated, and verified using the motion phantom results. Motion-induced artefacts were quantified in patient images using structural similarity maps to determine the similarity between axial slices.
RESULTS: Increasing amounts of motion-induced artefacts were observed with increasing rotation times >0.2 s for 16 mm detector configuration.
CONCLUSION: The current generation of 16-slice CT scanners, which are present in the majority of Radiation Oncology departments, are not capable of generating free-breathing sorting artefact-free images required for 5DCT. Advances in knowledge: A recently proposed "5DCT" protocol uses deformable registration of free-breathing fast-helical CT scans to generate a breathing motion model. In order to allow accurate registration, free-breathing images are required to be free of doubling-artefacts, which arise when tissue motion is greater than scan speed. The results suggest that the current generation of 16-slice CT scanners, present in the majority of Radiation Oncology departments, are not capable of generating the free-breathing images required for 5DCT.
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