Does the use of additional x-ray beam filtration during cine acquisition reduce clinical image quality and effective dose in cardiac interventional imaging?

Description

Yes / The impact of spectral filtration in digital (‘cine’) acquisition was investigated using a flat panel cardiac interventional X-ray imaging system. A 0.1-mm copper (Cu) and 1.0-mm aluminium (Al) filter added to the standard acquisition mode created the filtered mode for comparison. Image sequences of 35 patients were acquired, a double-blind subjective image quality assessment was completed and dose–area product (DAP) rates were calculated. Entrance surface dose (ESD) and effective dose (E) rates were determined for 20- and 30-cm phantoms. Phantom ESD fell by 28 and 41 % and E by 1 and 0.7 %, for the 20- and 30-cm phantoms, respectively, when using the filtration. Patient DAP rates fell by 43 % with no statistically significant difference in clinical image quality. Adding 0.1-mm Cu and 1.0-mm Al filtration in acquisition substantially reduces patient ESD and DAP, with no significant change in E or clinical image quality. / Supported in part by a research grant from Philips Healthcare, The Netherlands.

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1. Davies AG, Gislason-Lee AJ, Cowen AR et al (2014) Does the use of additional x-ray beam filtration during cine acquisition reduce clinical image quality and effective dose in cardiac interventional imaging? Radiation Protection Dosimetry. 162(4): 597-604.
2. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/16963
3. https://doi.org/10.1093/rpd/ncu020

Tags

Spectral filtration

Digital (‘cine’) acquisition

Cardiac interventional imaging

Image quality

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/16963
Date	20 February 2014
Creators	Davies, A.G., Gislason-Lee, Amber J., Cowen, A.R., Kengyelics, S.M., Lupton, M., Moore, J., Gaffney, C., Sparrow, T., Irving, H., Ali, S., Middleton, R., Campbell, S., Ackroyd,,, Sivananthan, M.
Source Sets	Bradford Scholars
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	Article, Accepted manuscript
Rights	© The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: [e-mail]. This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Radiation Protection Dosimetry following peer review. The version of record [Davies AG, Gislason-Lee AJ, Cowen AR et al (2014) Does the use of additional x-ray beam filtration during cine acquisition reduce clinical image quality and effective dose in cardiac interventional imaging? Radiation Protection Dosimetry. 162(4): 597-604.] is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/rpd/ncu020