TY - JOUR
T1 - Comparison of helical and cine acquisitions for 4D-CT imaging with multislice CT
AU - Pan, Tinsu
N1 - Funding Information:
The author thanks C. Bulkes, B. Beckett, S. Kohlmyer, and S. Hu, of GE Medical Systems, and J. Hazle, R. Mohan, O. Mawlawi, K. Prado, P. Balter, G. Starkschall, D. Luo, M. Fitzpatrick, L. Dong, H. Liu, and D. Eveslage of The University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center for their support of this work. This work was carried out when the author was with GE Medical Systems, and the manuscript was supported in part by a start-up fund from The University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.
PY - 2005/2
Y1 - 2005/2
N2 - We proposed a data sufficiency condition (DSC) for four-dimensional-CT (4D-CT) imaging on a multislice CT scanner, designed a pitch factor for a helical 4D-CT, and compared the acquisition time, slice sensitivity profile (SSP), effective dose, ability to cope with an irregular breathing cycle, and gating technique (retrospective or prospective) of the helical 4D-CT and the cine 4D-CT on the General Electric (GE) LightSpeed RT (4-slice), Plus (4-slice), Ultra (8-slice) and 16 (16-slice) multislice CT scanners. To satisfy the DSC, a helical or cine 4D-CT acquisition has to collect data at each location for the duration of a breathing cycle plus the duration of data acquisition for an image reconstruction. The conditions for the comparison were 20 cm coverage in the cranial-caudal direction, a 4 s breathing cycle, and half-scan reconstruction. We found that the helical 4D-CT has the advantage of a shorter scan time that is 10% shorter than that of the cine 4D-CT, and the disadvantages of 1.8 times broadening of SSP and requires an additional breathing cycle of scanning to ensure an adequate sampling at the start and end locations. The cine 4D-CT has the advantages of maintaining the same SSP as slice collimation (e.g., 8 x 2.5 mm slice collimation generates 2.5 mm SSP in the cine 4D-CT as opposed to 4.5 mm in the helical 4D-CT) and a lower dose by 4% on the 8- and 16-slice systems, and 8% on the 4-slice system. The advantage of faster scanning in the helical 4D-CT will diminish if a repeat scan at the location of a breathing irregularity becomes necessary. The cine 4D-CT performs better than the helical 4D-CT in the repeat scan because it can scan faster and is more dose efficient.
AB - We proposed a data sufficiency condition (DSC) for four-dimensional-CT (4D-CT) imaging on a multislice CT scanner, designed a pitch factor for a helical 4D-CT, and compared the acquisition time, slice sensitivity profile (SSP), effective dose, ability to cope with an irregular breathing cycle, and gating technique (retrospective or prospective) of the helical 4D-CT and the cine 4D-CT on the General Electric (GE) LightSpeed RT (4-slice), Plus (4-slice), Ultra (8-slice) and 16 (16-slice) multislice CT scanners. To satisfy the DSC, a helical or cine 4D-CT acquisition has to collect data at each location for the duration of a breathing cycle plus the duration of data acquisition for an image reconstruction. The conditions for the comparison were 20 cm coverage in the cranial-caudal direction, a 4 s breathing cycle, and half-scan reconstruction. We found that the helical 4D-CT has the advantage of a shorter scan time that is 10% shorter than that of the cine 4D-CT, and the disadvantages of 1.8 times broadening of SSP and requires an additional breathing cycle of scanning to ensure an adequate sampling at the start and end locations. The cine 4D-CT has the advantages of maintaining the same SSP as slice collimation (e.g., 8 x 2.5 mm slice collimation generates 2.5 mm SSP in the cine 4D-CT as opposed to 4.5 mm in the helical 4D-CT) and a lower dose by 4% on the 8- and 16-slice systems, and 8% on the 4-slice system. The advantage of faster scanning in the helical 4D-CT will diminish if a repeat scan at the location of a breathing irregularity becomes necessary. The cine 4D-CT performs better than the helical 4D-CT in the repeat scan because it can scan faster and is more dose efficient.
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U2 - 10.1118/1.1855013
DO - 10.1118/1.1855013
M3 - Article
C2 - 15789609
AN - SCOPUS:14644439819
SN - 0094-2405
VL - 32
SP - 627
EP - 634
JO - Medical physics
JF - Medical physics
IS - 2
ER -