Ⅰ. Purpose
Few many technologies are developed for decrease of radiation exposure by increasing usage of CTCA. Among the before, EKG gating technique is used mostly that able to correct images; using prospective EKG gating which can edit images of ...
Ⅰ. Purpose
Few many technologies are developed for decrease of radiation exposure by increasing usage of CTCA. Among the before, EKG gating technique is used mostly that able to correct images; using prospective EKG gating which can edit images of other phase if non-diagnostic image is acquired.
But, it has disadvantages that correction is impossible when pitch is false or heart-rate is irregular. Thus, not only additional contrast medium injection, but also radiation dose exposure is used by reexamination. We have evaluated the useful of the developed Snapshot Freeze mode for overcoming this limitation.
Ⅱ. Meterial and Methods
Discovery CT750 HD (GE Healthcare, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA), Low-contrast Artery Insert Phantom (Model76-715), and respiratory moving phantom (private product) are used. Low-contrast Artery Insert is located on moving phantom moving above and below. Phantom is scanned on the supposition that heart-rate is 40~70 bpm, and pitch is altered 0.18, 0.20, 0.22, 0.24. The standard of correction is evaluated by measure artery diameter. Snapshot Freeze Mode applied to twenty six patients who get non-diagnostic image of coming to AMC Health Screening Center.
Ⅲ. Result
In phantom study, the more artery diameter is increased as heart-rate increases, the more pitch and heart-rate are mismatches. It is mostly corrected by Snapshot Freeze Mode, but limited in case of severe artifacts. In clinical study, images corrected by Snapshot Freeze Mode are better than prospective ECG gating images. Results shows better correction degree in more than 67 bpm, but it couldn’t apply to all of frequency heart-rate. Axial images good at motion artifacts correction, but most sagittal images are inadequate for diagnosis because of step stair artifacts.
Ⅳ. Conclusions
The motion artifacts due to inappropriate respiration and irregular heart-rate have a bad effect on diagnosis using CTCA. For this reason, the prospective ECG gating technique which requires considerable radiation dose has been used, Meanwhile, Snapshot Freeze Mode available to dose reduction is used. Not Snapshot could decrease all of artifacts, but if we solve stair-step artifact on sagittal and shorten image reconstruction time, it is probably a valuable software on CTCA.