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Digital perfusion phantoms (DPPs) offer a solution for verifying perfusion applications. These simulated image sequences reveal perfusion analysis errors, ensuring software and protocol quality.

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Area of Science:

  • Medical Imaging
  • Radiology
  • Image Processing

Background:

  • Perfusion imaging applications are widely used in clinical practice.
  • Objective validation methods for perfusion analysis are currently lacking.
  • Current acceptance relies on vendor claims and qualitative assessment.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce a novel method for the objective validation of perfusion applications.
  • To address the absence of practical, hands-on quality control for perfusion software.
  • To enhance the reliability and accuracy of clinical perfusion assessments.

Main Methods:

  • Development of digital perfusion phantoms (DPPs): numerically simulated DICOM image sequences.
  • DPPs feature known perfusion maps with simple, recognizable visual patterns.
  • Processing DPPs with chosen perfusion algorithms and comparing results to expected patterns.

Main Results:

  • Deviations between processed and expected DPP maps clearly visualized processing differences.
  • Perfusion software errors and implementation issues were readily identified.
  • DPPs effectively highlighted errors often obscured by real-world data complexity.

Conclusions:

  • Digital perfusion phantoms provide a robust and straightforward method for quality control.
  • DPPs make perfusion implementation errors highly visible, aiding in their correction.
  • We recommend the use of DPPs for verifying the quality of all perfusion applications.