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CTP (Computed Tomography Perfusion) is widely used in clinical practice for the evaluation of cerebrovascular disorders. However, CTP involves high radiation dose (&#x2265;~200mGy) as the X-ray source remains continuously on during the passage of contrast media. The purpose of this study is to present a low dose CTP technique termed K-space Weighted Image Average (KWIA) using a novel projection view-shared averaging algorithm with reduced tube current. KWIA takes advantage of k-space signal property that the image contrast is primarily determined by the k-space center with low spatial frequencies and oversampled projections. KWIA divides each 2D Fourier transform (FT) or k-space CTP data into multiple rings. The outer rings are averaged with neighboring time frames to achieve adequate signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), while the center region of k-space remains unchanged to preserve high temporal resolution. Reduced dose sinogram data were simulated by adding Poisson distributed noise with zero mean on digital phantom and clinical CTP scans. A physical CTP phantom study was also performed with different X-ray tube currents. The sinogram data with simulated and real low doses were then reconstructed with KWIA, and compared with those reconstructed by standard filtered back projection (FBP) and simultaneous algebraic reconstruction with regularization of total variation (SART-TV). Evaluation of image quality and perfusion metrics using parameters including SNR, CNR (contrast-to-noise ratio), AUC (area-under-the-curve), and CBF (cerebral blood flow) demonstrated that KWIA is able to preserve the image quality, spatial and temporal resolution, as well as the accuracy of perfusion quantification of CTP scans with considerable (50-75%) dose-savings.

Low Dose CT Perfusion With K-Space Weighted Image Average (KWIA)