Optimization of exposure parameters in digital tomosynthesis considering effective dose and image quality

Seungyeon Choi; Sunghoon Choi; Ye-seul Kim; Haenghwa Lee; Donghoon Lee; Pil-Hyun Jeon; Dong-Hyuk Jang; Hee-Joung Kim

doi:10.1117/12.2216484

22 March 2016 Optimization of exposure parameters in digital tomosynthesis considering effective dose and image quality

Seungyeon Choi, Sunghoon Choi, Ye-seul Kim, Haenghwa Lee, Donghoon Lee, Pil-Hyun Jeon, Dong-Hyuk Jang, Hee-Joung Kim

Proceedings Volume 9783, Medical Imaging 2016: Physics of Medical Imaging; 978368 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2216484
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Digital tomosynthesis system (DTS), which scans an object in a limited angle, has been considered as an innovative imaging modality which can present lower patient dose than computed tomography and solve the problem of poor depth resolution in conventional digital radiography. Although it has many powerful advantages, only breast tomosynthesis system has been adopted in many hospitals. In order to reduce the patient dose while maintaining image quality, the acquisition conditions need to be studied. In this study, we analyzed effective dose and image qualities of chest phantom using commercialized universal chest digital tomosynthesis (CDT) R/F system to study the optimized exposure parameters. We set 10 different acquisition conditions including the default acquisition condition by user manual of Shimadzu (100 kVp with 0.5 mAs). The effective dose was calculated from PCXMC software version 1.5.1 by utilizing the total X-ray exposure measured by ion chamber. The image quality was evaluated by signal difference to noise ratio (SDNR) in the regions of interest (ROIs) pulmonary arteries at different axial in-plane. We analyzed a figure of merit (FOM) which considers both the effective dose and the SDNR in order to determine the optimal acquisition condition. The results indicated that the most suitable acquisition parameters among 10 conditions were condition 7 and 8 (120 kVp with 0.04 mAs and 0.1 mAs, respectively), which indicated lower effective dose while maintaining reasonable SDNRs and FOMs for three specified regions. Further studies are needed to be conducted for detailed outcomes in CDT acquisition conditions.

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Seungyeon Choi, Sunghoon Choi, Ye-seul Kim, Haenghwa Lee, Donghoon Lee, Pil-Hyun Jeon, Dong-Hyuk Jang, and Hee-Joung Kim "Optimization of exposure parameters in digital tomosynthesis considering effective dose and image quality", Proc. SPIE 9783, Medical Imaging 2016: Physics of Medical Imaging, 978368 (22 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2216484

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Image quality

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