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17 October 2022 Organ-specific vs. patient risk-specific tube current modulation in thorax CT scans covering the female breast
Laura Klein, Lucia Enzmann, Achim Byl, Chang Liu, Stefan Sawall, Andreas Maier, Joscha Maier, Michael Lell, Marc Kachelrieß
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Proceedings Volume 12304, 7th International Conference on Image Formation in X-Ray Computed Tomography; 123041I (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2646582
Event: Seventh International Conference on Image Formation in X-Ray Computed Tomography (ICIFXCT 2022), 2022, Baltimore, United States
Abstract
An important goal in modern CT imaging is reducing the dose delivered to patients especially to risk-relevant organs. This work compares the clinically applied dose reduction techniques mAs-minimizing tube current modulation (mAsTCM) and a typical organ-specific TCM (osTCM, here: X-Care, Siemens Healthcare) with a novel radiation risk-minimizing tube current modulation (riskTCM) with a focus on the dose delivered to the female breast. The mAsTCM minimizes the mAs product as a surrogate parameter for the patient dose but does not consider the different organs’ risks. In contrast, osTCM aims to minimize the dose delivered to the female breast by reducing the tube current for anterior projections. The riskTCM minimizes the patient risk by minimizing the effective dose to the patient, which is done by taking accounting for the organ doses. In this study, the dose reduction effect of the TCM techniques is compared by simulations based on clinical CT Scans. Results: riskTCM reduces the effective dose by up to 35% in comparison to mAsTCM, and by up to 30% in comparison to osTCM depending on the anatomical region and the patient.
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Laura Klein, Lucia Enzmann, Achim Byl, Chang Liu, Stefan Sawall, Andreas Maier, Joscha Maier, Michael Lell, and Marc Kachelrieß "Organ-specific vs. patient risk-specific tube current modulation in thorax CT scans covering the female breast", Proc. SPIE 12304, 7th International Conference on Image Formation in X-Ray Computed Tomography, 123041I (17 October 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2646582
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KEYWORDS
Breast
Modulation
Computed tomography
Cancer
Image quality
Image segmentation
Monte Carlo methods
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