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B Alikhani1, L Jamali1, H-J Raatschen1
1Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Introduction:
To evaluate the image quality provided by MDCT scanners using an ACR phantom an to find out the relationship between CT parameters and physical quantities related to image quality.
Methods:
A GE Lightspeed VCT and a GE Lightspeed Pro 16 are used. The ACR phantom consists of four modules for evaluating physical parameters. The image quality parameters, such as CT number, linearity, CNR, image uniformity, SNR and at least spatial resolution using MTF, by different sets of image acquisition protocols (IAPs) are characterized. The influences of the IAPs on the physical quantities are also discussed.
Results:
The CT numbers behaved linearly relative to material density for all tube voltages. The impact of the tube current on the CT numbers is neglectable. However, the variation of the tube current reflects in the CT number uncertainties. The CNR are altered by changing the IAPs. 50% MTF decreases from 6.2 to 3.6 lp/cm and from 6.5 to 3.7 lp/cm using Lung and Soft kernel for the Lightspeed VCT and Lightspeed Pro 16 scanner, respectively.
Conclusion:
The dependence of the image quality parameters on reconstruction kernels, tube peak voltages, tube currents and the slice thicknesses has been discussed. The tube peak voltage has the most influence on the CT numbers. The results indicate that the reconstruction kernel has the main impact on the spatial resolution. The spatial resolution dependence on the tube voltages, tube currents and slice thicknesses can be ignored.
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