Final CT Flashcards
(78 cards)
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ray
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A single transmission measurement through the patient made by a single detector at a given moment in time
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projection (or view)
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A series of rays that pass through the patient at the same orientation
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1G CT Scanner
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- “translate/rotate” geometry
- could use narrow beam geometry
- All rays in a view are parallel to each other “parallel ray geometry”
- Able to take two slices at once by using a slightly fan-shaped beam that covered two detectors
- Tube was usually stationary anode tube with 12 degree target angle
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2G CT scanner
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- “Translate/rotate” geometry
- Typically 30 detectors and only one slice
- Each translation obtains data for 30 different angles. This allows fewer rotations
- Parallel ray geometry
- more scatter effects
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3G CT Scanner
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- “rotate/rotate” geometry
- Typically 700 to 1000 detectors
- Fan-beam geometry
- broad beam measurements-more scatter
- Rotating anode tube
- Tube and detectors co-rotate
- Detector collimation can reduce scatter effects
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4G CT scanner
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- “rotate/stationary”
- Typically 700-2400 stationary detectors
- fan-beam geometry
- broad beam measurements-more scatter
- large air gap to reduce scatter
- rotating anode tube around patient
- Each detector forms a view as the tube moves across and behind the patient
- Detector collimation is minimal to allow large angular acceptance
- Tube moves about 0.05 deg between rays
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5G CT Scanner
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- Electron beam (stationary detectors and tube)
- basically 4G geometry
- focal spot is swept on anode to move the x-ray fan beam
- can sweep in 50 ms
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Picker Slip Rings
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- Early scanners limited by rotation
- needed to “rewind” due to cables
- This limited scan speed, time between scans
- Development of slip rings allowed the development of continuous rotation
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Modern scanners
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- Nearly all modern scanners are 3G geometry due to lowest cost
- 1-2 revolutions per second
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6G CT scanners
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- Helical
- First with single detector geometry, then with multi-detector
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Slice Pitch
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Single detector scanner
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7G CT scanner
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- Multi-slice
- Up to 256 slices
- CT is becoming “cone beam”
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Beam Pitch
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Multi-detector scanner
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X-ray tubes in CT
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- 80-140 kVp, continuous excitation
- fan beam or thin cone collimation
- More filtering than projection radiography
- copper followed by aluminum
- better approximation to monoenergetic
- Best contrast at about 125 kVp, thicker patients use higher kVp
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CT detectors
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- Most are solid state
- scintillation crystal
- solid state photo-diode
- Original EMI head scanner had a water bag to reduce detector “afterglow” due to the NaI(th) crystals
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Detectors Scatter and Efficiency
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- Scatter
- Increasing scatter sensitivity: 1,2,3,4
- gas detectors have low scatter sensitivity
- Efficiency
- Direct detection, scint-photomultiplier, scint-photodiode, gas detector
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Detector Resolution
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CT Detector Specifications
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- Single-slice scanners
- Area: 1.0mm X 15.0 mm
- Thick in 3G, thin in 4G and EBCT
- Multi-slice scanners
- Area: 1.0mm X 1.25 mm
- Grouped in multiples of 1.25 mm
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X-ray Source Effects
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- Use of a shaped x-ray filter (“bowtie”): head and body versions helps to reduce dose and the needed dynamic range of the detectors
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Monoenergetic Model
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CT Measurement
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CT Basics
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- We want each voxel in the image to represent the linear attenuation coefficient of the tissue in that voxel
- Attenuation in diagnostic range due to photoelectric effect and compton scattering
- Attenuation coefficient mainly reflects tissue density
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CT Number
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CT Reconstruction Basice
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- It is easy to measure the attenuation coefficient is there is only one absorber
- To measure an array of absorbers we have to make many measurements
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Picture of a Line
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Line parameters
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Line Integral Parametric Form
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Line Integral Set Form
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Physical Meaning of f(x,y) and g(l,\theta)
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What is g(l,\theta)?
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Sinogram
* A way to display the Radon Transform
* CT data acquired for collection of l and \theta
* CT scanners aquires a sinogram
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Backprojection
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Backprojection Summation
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Projection Slice Theorem
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Projection Slice Theorem Derivation
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Projection Slice Theorem Equations
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Exact Reconstruction Formulas
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Fourier Reconstruction
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Filtered Backprojection Equation
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Convolution Backprojection
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Three steps to convolution backprojection
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Ramp Filter Design
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Noise in CT Measurements
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CT Filter Algorithms
* Ramp filter is called a high resolution filter because it does not limit the MTF at high spatial frequencies
* Bone windows are even higher resolution filters. They artificially "boost" the high frequencies to produce edge enhancement
* Shepp-Logan filter is called "standard" because it is a good compromise between noise filtering and resolution
* Soft tissue filters smooth more heavilty
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Factors Affecting CT Resolution
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Ramp FIlter Design
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Band Limiting and Aliasing
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CBP Approximations
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Definitions and Approximations
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If we increase the bandwidth
The noise increases as the square-root of the cube of the BW
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If we decrease T
it looks like the variance decreases, but if the detectors are reduced in size the /T ratio will not change so be careful of joint effects
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Increasing
reduces noise but increases dose
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Increasing M
Reduces noise variance as long as the scan time increases. If M is increased and the scan time is the same, then goes down per angle
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Variance Equation
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Image Signal to Noise general equation
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SNR Equation
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SNR Equation 3G scanner
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Rule of Thumb
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Fan Beam Geometry Angle Relations
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Fan Beam Reconstruction Formula
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Fan Beam Projection and weighted backprojection
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Helical Pitch
* Pitch \< 1 implies overlapping and higher patient dose
* Pitch \> 1 implies extended imaging and reduced patient dose
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Helical CT Slice Profile Effects
The FWHM values increase with increasing pitch. The steep edges of the conventional scan indicate that the boundaries of the slice are sharply defined. A small structure is either within the slice, contributing fully to the image, or outside the slic, not contributing at all to the image. For spiral acquisition, the edges become less steep. This means that structures outsid eth enorminal slick thickness contribute to some extent to the image
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Radiation Dose
* Dose - radiation energy transferred to an anatomic structure during x-ray scanning
* Unit of dose is Gray (Gy), sometimes rad (0.01 Gy)
* Typical values for a CT transaxial scan are in the range of 30 to 50 mGy.
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Multiple Scan Average Dose
By superimposition of all of these single dose profiles, the dose in the central protion of the total dose profile increases to a level that is 1.5 times the peak value for a single slice
The increased value is the MSAD
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Dose Measurement
* Cylindrical Phantoms of 16 cm and 32 cm
* Pencil ionization chamber-typically 100 mm long
* Dosimeter
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CT Dose Index FDA
* Average dose to central slice from doing 14 slices
* Assumes that the slices are contiguous.
* When slick thickness equals table movement, CTDI and MSAD are the same
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CTDI 100
* The dose corresponds to the contribution from a fixed 100 mm interval from -50 mm to 50 mm irrespective of the slice thickness
* provides a better relative dose index for modern protocols that use thinner slices
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Dose Length Produce (DLP)
* Product of the CTDI\_w value and the length of the body scanned
* Useful quantity for comparing the total radiation to patients from various CT procudures
* Useful in computing effective dose equivalent (EDE)
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Effective Dose Equivalent (EDE)
* EDE is defined as the radiation dose, that if recieved by the entire body, provides the same radiation risk as does the higher dose received by the limited part of the body actually exposed
* Formally, calculation is complicated
* estimate the doses deposited in each type of organ and tissue which are then weighted according to radiosensitivity and summed
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Factors influencing radiation dose
* Dose profile
* Focal spot to center of rotation distance
* pitch effect
* focal spot wobble and tracking
* choice of kVp on dose
* tube current modulation
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Image Quality: High-Contrast Resolution
* Depends of
* x-ray spot size
* detector collimation
* angular and spatial sampling rates
* table motion speed
* reconstruction filter
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ACR CT accrediation phantom examines
* positioning accuracy
* CT # accuracy
* Image thickness
* Low contrast resolution
* High contrast (spatial) resolution
* CT number uniformity
* Image noise
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CTDI FDA equation
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CTDI 100 equation
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CTI FDA vs 100 Dose Quoted to
* FDA
* perspex
* 100
* air
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CTDI W equation
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Volume CTDI equation
