Noise characteristics of CT perfusion imaging: how does noise propagate from source images to final perfusion maps?

Ke Li; Guang-Hong Chen

doi:10.1117/12.2216293

22 March 2016 Noise characteristics of CT perfusion imaging: how does noise propagate from source images to final perfusion maps?

Ke Li, Guang-Hong Chen

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Proceedings Volume 9783, Medical Imaging 2016: Physics of Medical Imaging; 978310 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2216293
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Cerebral CT perfusion (CTP) imaging is playing an important role in the diagnosis and treatment of acute ischemic strokes. Meanwhile, the reliability of CTP-based ischemic lesion detection has been challenged due to the noisy appearance and low signal-to-noise ratio of CTP maps. To reduce noise and improve image quality, a rigorous study on the noise transfer properties of CTP systems is highly desirable to provide the needed scientific guidance. This paper concerns how noise in the CTP source images propagates to the final CTP maps. Both theoretical deviations and subsequent validation experiments demonstrated that, the noise level of background frames plays a dominant role in the noise of the cerebral blood volume (CBV) maps. This is in direct contradiction with the general belief that noise of non-background image frames is of greater importance in CTP imaging. The study found that when radiation doses delivered to the background frames and to all non-background frames are equal, lowest noise variance is achieved in the final CBV maps. This novel equality condition provides a practical means to optimize radiation dose delivery in CTP data acquisition: radiation exposures should be modulated between background frames and non-background frames so that the above equality condition is satisïnAed. For several typical CTP acquisition protocols, numerical simulations and in vivo canine experiment demonstrated that noise of CBV can be effectively reduced using the proposed exposure modulation method.

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Ke Li and Guang-Hong Chen "Noise characteristics of CT perfusion imaging: how does noise propagate from source images to final perfusion maps?", Proc. SPIE 9783, Medical Imaging 2016: Physics of Medical Imaging, 978310 (22 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2216293

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