1. Abdominal vessel depiction on virtual triphasic spectral detector CT: initial clinical experience.
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Lennartz S, Laukamp KR, Tandon Y, Jordan M, Große Hokamp N, Zopfs D, Pennig L, Obmann M, Gilkeson RC, Herrmann KA, Ramaiya N, and Gupta A
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- Humans, Renal Artery, Retrospective Studies, Abdomen diagnostic imaging, Tomography, X-Ray Computed
- Abstract
Purpose: To evaluate vessel assessment in virtual monoenergetic images (VMI
40keV ) and virtual-non-contrast images (VNC) derived from venous phase spectral detector computed tomography (SDCT) acquisitions in comparison to arterial phase and true non-contrast (TNC) images., Methods: Triphasic abdominal SDCT was performed in 25 patients including TNC, arterial and venous phase. VMI40keV and VNC were reconstructed from the venous phase and compared to conventional arterial-phase images (CIart ), TNC and conventional venous-phase images (CIven ). Vessel contrast and virtual contrast removal were analyzed with region-of-interest-based measurements and in a qualitative assessment., Results: Quantitative analysis revealed no significant attenuation differences between TNC and VNC in arterial vessels (p-range 0.07-0.47) except for the renal artery (p = 0.011). For venous vessels, significant differences between TNC and VNC were found for all veins (p < 0.001) except the inferior vena cava (p = 0.26), yet these differences remained within a 10 HU range in most patients. No significant attenuation differences were found between CIart /VMI40keV in arterial vessels (p-range 0.06-0.86). Contrast-to-noise ratio provided by VMI40keV and CIart was equivalent for all arterial vessels assessed (p-range 0.14-0.91). Qualitatively, VMI40keV showed similar enhancement of abdominal and pelvic arteries as CIart and VNC were rated comparable to TNC., Conclusion: Our study suggests that VNC and VMI40keV derived from single venous-phase SDCT offer comparable assessment of major abdominal vessels as provided by routine triphasic examinations, if no dynamic contrast information is required.- Published
- 2021
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