Comparison of automated beam hardening correction (ABHC) algorithms for myocardial perfusion imaging using computed tomography.

Medical Physics
Jacob LeviDavid L Wilson

Abstract

Myocardial perfusion imaging using computed tomography (MPI-CT) and coronary CT angiography (CTA) have the potential to make CT an ideal noninvasive imaging gatekeeper exam for invasive coronary angiography. However, beam hardening can prevent accurate blood flow estimation in dynamic MPI-CT and can create artifacts that resemble flow deficits in single-shot MPI-CT. In this work, we compare four automatic beam hardening correction algorithms (ABHCs) applied to CT images, for their ability to produce accurate single images of contrast and accurate MPI flow maps using images from conventional CT systems, without energy sensitivity. Previously, we reported a method, herein called ABHC-1, where we iteratively optimized a cost function sensitive to beam hardening artifacts in MPI-CT images and used a low order polynomial correction on projections of segmentation-processed CT images. Here, we report results from two new algorithms with higher order polynomial corrections, ABHC-2 and ABHC-3 (with three and seven free parameters, respectively), having potentially better correction but likely reduced estimability. Additionally, we compared results to an algorithm reported by others in the literature (ABHC-NH). Comparisons were made on a...Continue Reading

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