Dose and image quality of high-pitch dual source computed tomography for the evaluation of cervical lymph node status - Comparison to regular 128-slice single source computed tomography

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• 作者：Boris Bodelle ; ^{bbodelle@googlemail.com} ; Ralf W. Bauer ; Lara Holthaus ; Boris Schulz ; Firas Al-Butmeh ; Julian L. Wichmann ; Martin Beeres ; Thomas J. Vogl ; J. Matthias Kerl
• 关键词：High-pitch ; Dual source ; Computed tomography ; Cervical lymph node ; Lymphoma
• 刊名：European Journal of Radiology
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：June, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：82
• 期：6
• 页码：e281-e285
• 全文大小：419 K

文摘

Purpose

A high-pitch dual-source CT (DSCT) was compared to a standard single-source CT protocol in terms of dose and image quality for malignant lymphoma staging.

Materials and methods

Data from 43 patients who underwent DSCT (group 1) of the neck for staging of malignant lymphoma and 40 patients who underwent regular single source CT (group 2) were investigated retrospectively. Volume CT dose index (CTDIvol), dose length product (DLP), background noise (BN), attenuation values, signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR), scan time, effective tube current-time product (eff. mAs), subjective diagnostic image quality and artifact burden were compared.

Results

CTDIvol (5.5 ¡À 0.8 mGy vs. 12.4 ¡À 1.4 mGy), DLP (172 ¡À 27 mGycm vs. 344 ¡À 60 mGycm, p < 0.0001), eff. mAs (98 ¡À 15 mAs vs. 183 ¡À 20 mAs, p < 0.0001) and scan time (0.64 ¡À 0.05 s vs. 8.21 ¡À 0.72 s) were lower for group 1. BN was higher (p < 0.001) for group 1 with a mean difference of 2.6 HU. SNR for sternocleidomastoid and pectoral muscle was lower (6.6-12.3 vs. 7.8-19.1) for group 1. Subjective image quality (1.55 ¡À 0.6 vs. 1.42 ¡À 0.5) and artifact burden (1.62 ¡À 1.0 vs. 1.57 ¡À 0.9) were not rated significantly different (p = 0.47 and p = 0.80) with a good inter-observer agreement (¦Ê = 0.59-0.90).

Conclusion

High-pitch DSCT allows reduction of patient dose for cervical lymphoma staging while diagnostic image quality is preserved.