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[Chest radiography: ROC phantom study of four different digital systems and one conventional radiographic system]
U Redlich1, S Reissberg, C Hoeschen
1Klinik für Diagnostische Radiologie, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg,Germany. ulf.redlich@medizin-uni-magdeburg.de
Purpose:
To compare the diagnostic quality of five different radiographic systems used in chest radiography for visualization of differently configured, clinically relevant pathologic pulmonary structures.
Materials And Methods:
Four digital detector systems using as detection unit a CsI/aSi-based flat panel detector, a transparent imaging plate, a selenium detector and a conventional storage phosphor plate were analyzed for this study, as well as an asymmetrical film-screen system. The analyzed imaging material consisted of radiographs of an anthropomorphic chest-phantom with superimposed simulated pulmonary structures. The images were evaluated for different pathologic structures by a newly developed multiple structure ROC (ms-ROC).
Results:
The performance of each system was found to have a strong structure-related variability. The flat panel detector system had the best overall performance. The theoretical advantage of the 4k-matrix of the transparent imaging plate over the 3k-matrix of the flat panel detector was only confirmed for reticular structures.
Conclusions:
In addition to comparing the image quality of the different systems, this study shows that the performance of a radiographic system depends on the structure to be analyzed. The modified ROC (ms-ROC) provides valid results with less effort.