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  • Medical Imaging
  • Pulmonary Medicine
  • Biomedical Engineering

Background:

  • Accurate CT-based volume measurement of pulmonary cysts is challenging.
  • Existing lung phantoms lack realistic air-filled cavities for calibrating cyst volume assessment.
  • Conditions like Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) require precise quantification of cystic lung changes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a simple, reproducible cystic lung phantom for CT scan calibration.
  • To assess the accuracy of current lung analysis software in measuring cystic lung volumes.
  • To investigate the relationship between cyst size and measurement accuracy.

Main Methods:

  • Construction of a cystic lung phantom with a trachea and two lung compartments using NIST-recommended foam.
  • Inclusion of air cavities of varying sizes to simulate pulmonary cysts.
  • Testing the phantom on a clinical CT scanner with two types of lung analysis software.

Main Results:

  • The lung phantom structures were accurately recognized by the analysis software.
  • Cystic volume measurements demonstrated a size-dependent accuracy relationship.
  • Individual small cysts were consistently underestimated in volume, with errors increasing as cyst size decreased.

Conclusions:

  • The developed cystic lung phantom is a valuable tool for calibrating CT-based pulmonary cyst volume measurements.
  • Software-based underestimation of small cyst volumes is a significant, previously unreported issue.
  • Clinicians should be aware of this underestimation when assessing cyst burden, especially in patients with numerous small pulmonary cysts.