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Measurement of liver volume using spiral CT and the curved line and cubic spline algorithms: reproducibility and
K Sandrasegaran1, P W Kwo, D DiGirolamo
1Department of Radiology, Indiana University Hospital, Room 0279, 550 North University Boulevard, Indianapolis, IN 46202-5253, USA.
Background:
The purpose of this article was to evaluate the accuracy and reproducibility of spiral computed tomography (CT) and the curved line and cubic spline algorithms in measuring liver volume.
Methods:
Spiral CT was performed in phantoms, cadaveric liver specimens, and 35 live human subjects (19 healthy volunteers and 16 patients). Images were transferred to a workstation, and volumes were measured by two observers. One observer repeated the measurements at a separate sitting.
Results:
The correlation between the CT measurement and the gold standard measurement of the cadaveric livers was very strong (r = 0.94). For the live human subjects, the intraobserver and interobserver correlations were extremely high (r = 0.999 and 0.997, respectively). The mean difference in liver volume measurements between the separate observations was 1%.
Conclusion:
The accuracy and reproducibility of this method of assessing liver volume are very high.