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The effects of CT drift on xenon/CT measurement of regional cerebral blood flow
Author(s) -
Kearfott K. J.,
Lu H. C.,
Rottenberg D. A.,
Deck M. D. F.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
medical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.473
H-Index - 180
eISSN - 2473-4209
pISSN - 0094-2405
DOI - 10.1118/1.595552
Subject(s) - hounsfield scale , imaging phantom , nuclear medicine , cerebral blood flow , materials science , xenon , blood flow , medicine , computed tomography , radiology , physics , atomic physics , cardiology
A systematic increase in computed tomography (CT) number of approximately 0.13 Hounsfield unit per scan (HU/scan) was observed when serial DeltaScan 2020 CT scans of a uniform water phantom were equally spaced at 0.5, 1.0, or 2.0 min and a shaped aluminum beam‐hardening filter was employed. Much smaller drifts (<0.06 HU/scan) were observed with flat aluminum or shaped beryllium oxide filters. This machine drift, which was not associated with a rise in water phantom temperature and did not consistently correlate with estimated x‐ray tube heat, could result in a significant overestimation of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) for a xenon/CT rCBF protocol involving 5–7 sequential scans obtained at 1‐min interscan intervals.
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